INTERFEROMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interferometer mean? 

• INTERFEROMETER (noun)
  The noun INTERFEROMETER has 1 sense:

1. any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves

  Familiarity information: INTERFEROMETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERFEROMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("interferometer" is a kind of...):

measuring device; measuring instrument; measuring system (instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something)

 Context examples 

National Science Foundation (NSF) provides funding for ALMA, an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)