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Definition of Big Bang

1. Noun. (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe.

Definition of Big Bang

1. Proper noun. The cosmic event that marks the beginning of time and the rapid expansion of space for the visible universe. The evolution of the universe since that beginning point is described by the Big Bang Theory. ¹

2. Noun. An explosion giving rise to a universe. ¹

3. 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". ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Big Bang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Making Markets: Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Post by Shafiqul Islam, Michael Mandelbaum (1993)
"Interestingly, it is The Economist's version of the gradualist model that many often criticize as a painful big bang involving simultaneous, forceful, ..."

2. Institutional Investors in the New Financial Landscape by H. J. Blommestein, Norbert Funke (1998)
"The Big Bang 2001 Japan is presently getting ready to carry out a variety of reforms. There has been an ongoing discussion over the administrative reform, ..."

3. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
""BIG-BANG"—STORY OF AN AMERICAN ADVENTURER A Tale of the Great Trench Mortars Told by CP Thompson "Big-Bang" was Tommy's name for one of our pioneer trench ..."

4. First Workshop on Grand Unification: New England Center, University of New by Paul H. Frampton, Sheldon L. Glashow, Asim Yildiz (1980)
"INTRODUCTION According to the standard hot big bang model, the early evolution of the universe provided a cosmic accelerator in which elementary particles, ..."

5. Bond Market Development in Asia by OECD Staff, Oecd, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2001)
"FURTHER REFORMS AFTER THE "Big Bang": THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BOND MARKET I. Introduction by Professor Ghon Rhee At the end of 1999, Japanese government ..."

6. The Origin and Its Meaning: On the Origin of the Universe and Its Mechanics by Roger Ellman (2004)
"The other big bang alternative is that the Big Bang was the only one and that, the mass in the universe being insufficient to eventually reverse the ..."

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