cosmic background radiation

What does cosmic background radiation mean?

cosmic background radiation means "(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin".

What is another word for cosmic background radiation?

Close synonyms include CBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, cosmic microwave background, CMB. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cosmic background radiation a common word?

cosmic background radiation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cosmic background radiation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.