cosmic microwave background

What does cosmic microwave background mean?

cosmic microwave background 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 microwave background?

Close synonyms include cosmic background radiation, CBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, 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 microwave background a common word?

cosmic microwave background 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 microwave background come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.