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- noun (Astron.) The explosive event marking the beginning of the known universe, according to
big bang theory ; the beginning of time.
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- noun An explosion giving rise to a
universe . - noun In project management, a
project that has no staged delivery. The customer must wait, sometimes months, before seeing anything. At the end of the wait comes a "big bang".
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- noun (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
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January 15, 2010