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Mills cross

American  

noun

  1. a type of radio telescope consisting of two arrays of antennas perpendicular to each other.

Etymology

Origin of Mills cross

First recorded in 1960–65; named after Bernard Y. Mills (1920–2011), Australian astronomer

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