Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A device used in radio astronomy for detecting and recording radio waves coming from stars and other celestial objects, consisting of a radio receiver with an antenna fixed on a wide bowl-shaped reflector that collects the waves.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy A device for observing astronomical sources of radio waves, normally having one or more large parabolic dishes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources
Examples
“We think there’s a two-kilometer radiodish built into a natural depression, a radio telescope or a communications dish, or both.”
“The Mark I telescope at Jodrell Bank in the United Kingdom was the first large radio telescope to be used as a tracking antenna to chart the course of the satellite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘radio telescope’.
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ENVI - Collocations RS
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
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