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ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any telescope designed to collect and record electromagnetic radiation from cosmic sources
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("astronomical telescope" is a kind of...):
scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "astronomical telescope"):
optical telescope (an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources)
radio reflector; radio telescope (astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources)