🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

射电望远镜

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shèdiàn wàngyuǎnjìng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Radio telescope/ˈreɪ.di.oʊ ˈtɛl.ɪ.skoʊp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"天眼是一架巨型射电望远镜。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A directional antenna used in radio astronomy to gather radio frequency radiation from astronomical sources in the sky.

    "The massive radio telescope detected faint signals from a pulsar billions of light-years away."
  2. 2

    An instrument designed to study naturally occurring radio emission from stars, galaxies, quasars, and other astronomical objects.

    "Researchers used the famous Arecibo radio telescope to map the surface of Venus and search for extraterrestrial intelligence."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'radio' (from Latin radius, meaning 'ray' or 'beam', later applied to electromagnetic waves) and 'telescope' (coined from Greek tēle meaning 'far' and skopein meaning 'to look or see'). The term emerged in the mid-20th century with the development of radio astronomy following Karl Jansky's pioneering discoveries in the 1930s.

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