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NOUN (1)

1. (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;
[syn: cosmic background radiation, CBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, cosmic microwave background, CMB]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cosmic microwave background
    n 1: (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 [syn: cosmic
         background radiation, CBR, cosmic microwave background
         radiation, CMBR, cosmic microwave background, CMB]