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    CMB

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (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 kelvinplay

    Synonyms:

    CBR; CMB; CMBR; cosmic background radiation; cosmic microwave background; cosmic microwave background radiation

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural phenomena

    Hypernyms ("CMB" is a kind of...):

    cosmic radiation (radiation coming from outside the solar system)

    Domain category:

    cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)

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