ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astronomical telescope mean? 

• ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE (noun)
  The noun ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE has 1 sense:

1. any telescope designed to collect and record electromagnetic radiation from cosmic sources

  Familiarity information: ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE (noun)

Sense 1

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)