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BACKGROUND RADIATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does background radiation mean?
• BACKGROUND RADIATION (noun)
The noun BACKGROUND RADIATION has 1 sense:
1. radiation coming from sources other than those being observed
Familiarity information: BACKGROUND RADIATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Radiation coming from sources other than those being observed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("background radiation" is a kind of...):
background; background signal (extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured)
Context examples
The results are especially important to the scientific community because they mark the first time that observations from the more recent universe — the adult universe — by a technique called gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering, have yielded results as precise as those from the cosmic microwave background radiation — light from the infant universe.
(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)
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