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microwave detector

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noun

  1. a device for recording the speed of a motorist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Euclid is an old-fashioned optical telescope, not a microwave detector, which makes it a technically different kind of mission requiring different skills.

From Nature Jul. 19, 2018

In 1965 two American physicists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, were testing a very sensitive microwave detector.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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