FRB
/ɛf.ɔːɹ.biː/
FRB is the initialism of Federal Reserve Bank.
FRB is the initialism of Fast Radio Burst.
Meaning of Fast Radio Burst
Noun
fast radio burst (plural fast radio bursts)
- 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
- An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
- An object from which the phenomenon occurs.
Forms of FRB
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Questions about FRB
- What is FRB the initialism of?
- FRB is the initialism of Federal Reserve Bank.
- How do you pronounce FRB?
- FRB is pronounced /ɛf.ɔːɹ.biː/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: FRB (page history and authors); fast radio burst (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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