SOLAR TELESCOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solar telescope mean? 

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

1. a telescope designed to make observations of the sun

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLAR TELESCOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A telescope designed to make observations of the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("solar telescope" is a kind of...):

scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)

 Context examples 

Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)