radio telescope

noun

: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy

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The Square Kilometre Array, expected to be completed in 2028, will include thousands of dishes and up to 1 million low-frequency antennae to create the world’s largest radio telescope, which could search for coronal mass ejections releasing from other stars. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025 The team used observations from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope, a Europe-wide radio telescope network. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025 Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and other spacecraft, and use radio telescopes to take in radio waves emitted by objects throughout the universe. Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025 There, more than two dozen optical and radio telescopes now share the peak with ancient desert winds and perhaps, in the spirit of Halloween, a few ghost stories yet untold. Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for radio telescope

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First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of radio telescope was in 1947

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“Radio telescope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20telescope. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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radio telescope

noun
: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy

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