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fast radio burst

fast radio burst noun: a tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.

Noun

fast radio burst (plural fast radio bursts)

  1. A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
    • This would confirm a cosmological origin of the fast radio burst, although this was disputed because the afterglow could also be caused by conventional AGN activity.2016, Günter Sigl, Astroparticle Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 571
  2. (broadly) An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
  3. (broadly) An object from which the phenomenon occurs.

Forms of fast radio burst

pluralfast radio bursts

Words formed from fast radio burst

  • FRB
  • fast radio burster

Questions about fast radio burst

What does fast radio burst mean?
Fast radio burst means a tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
What part of speech is fast radio burst?
Fast radio burst is a noun.
What is the plural of fast radio burst?
The plural of fast radio burst is fast radio bursts.

Words near fast radio burst in the dictionary

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  2. fast mover
  3. fast movers
  4. fast one
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  8. fast reactor
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  10. fast rope
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