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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device used in radio astronomy for detecting and recording radio waves coming from stars and other celestial objects, usually consisting of a radio receiver with an antenna fixed on a wide bowl-shaped reflector that collects the waves.
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- noun astronomy A
device forobserving astronomical sources of radiowaves , normally having one or more largeparabolic dishes .
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- noun astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources
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