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Meaning of fast radio burst | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
  2. An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
  3. An object from which the phenomenon occurs.

Examples

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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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