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CBR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CBR mean? 

CBR (noun)
  The noun CBR has 1 sense:

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 kelvinplay

  Familiarity information: CBR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CBR (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 kelvin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("CBR" 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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