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- noun astronomy The faint, uniform
flux ofmicrowave radiation thatpermeates allspace and is theredshifted residual effect of theBig Bang
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- noun (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
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