🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

電波望遠鏡

Pronunciation / Transliteration: denpa bōenkō

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Radio Telescope/ˈreɪdi.oʊ ˈtɛl.ɪˌskoʊp/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"電波望遠鏡を使って宇宙からの電波を観測する。"

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

The term combines 'radio', derived from Latin radius (spoke, ray) via electromagnetic context in the late 19th century, and 'telescope', coined from Greek tēle (far) and skopein (to look). Developed in the 1930s as engineers began detecting extraterrestrial radio waves, establishing a new branch of astronomy.

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