🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

アレシボ

Native Script:アレシボ天文台

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Aresibo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Arecibo/ˌɑːr.əˈsiː.boʊ/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"アレシボ電波望遠鏡は宇宙科学の発展に大きく貢献した。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A municipality and city located on the northern coast of Puerto Rico.

    "Arecibo is known for its rich history and coastal geography."
  2. 2

    Short for the Arecibo Observatory, a historic radio telescope facility renowned for its massive spherical reflector dish used in radar astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

    "Scientists around the world mourned the collapse of the iconic telescope at Arecibo."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Taíno name of a region in Puerto Rico, subsequently adopted as the name of a municipality and historically famous for housing a major astronomical radio telescope. The term entered global English primarily through geography, astronomy, and science journalism in the 20th century.

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