microwave detector
Britishnoun
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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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