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fast radio burst

noun 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.
  2. broadly An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
  3. broadly An object from which the phenomenon occurs.

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@misc{fast_radio_burst_2026,
  title = {fast radio burst},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fast%20radio%20burst},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}