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gravitational wave background

gravitational wave background is the ellipsis of cosmic gravitational-wave background.

Meaning of cosmic gravitational-wave background

Noun

cosmic gravitational-wave background (uncountable)

  1. The stochastic background of gravitational waves produced during the creation of the universe.
    • Holonyms: cosmic background, cosmic background radiation < electromagnetic radiation < radiation
  2. The irresolvable diffuse background resulting from the mixture of weak gravitational waves of all sources.

Synonyms of gravitational wave background

Forms of gravitational wave background

alternative formgravitational-wave background

Questions about gravitational wave background

What is gravitational wave background the ellipsis of?
Gravitational wave background is the ellipsis of cosmic gravitational-wave background.

Words near gravitational wave background in the dictionary

  1. gravitational singularities
  2. gravitational singularity
  3. gravitational slingshot
  4. gravitational slingshots
  5. gravitational wave
  6. gravitational wave background
  7. gravitational waves
  8. gravitational well
  9. gravitational wells
  10. gravitational-wave
  11. gravitational-wave background

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gravitational wave background (page history and authors); cosmic gravitational-wave background (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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