afterglow
pronunciation
How to pronounce afterglow in British English:
UK [ˈɑ:ftəgləʊ]
How to pronounce afterglow in American English:
US [ˈæftərgloʊ]
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- Noun:
- a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset
- the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event
Word Origin
- afterglow (n.)
- also after-glow, 1829, from after + glow (n.).
Example
- 1. This cosmic microwave background radiation , they said , represents the ancient afterglow of the big bang .
- 2. In 1945 , the british task was made much easier by the afterglow of victory in the second world war .
- 3. It does not , however , line up with another unexplained dipole , dubbed the axis of evil , in the afterglow of the big bang .
- 4. A few years later , measurements of the afterglow of the big bang-the so-called cosmic microwave background-indicated that 70 % of the stuff in the universe had to be dark energy .
- 5. If you were in space with ' magic glasses ' that showed microwaves , you would see the whole of the universe glowing brightly with the big bang afterglow just as if you were inside a light bulb .