Tiros
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tiros
t(elevision) i(nfra)r(ed) o(bservational) s(atellite)
Example Sentences
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His new vehicles, amid the general advance in knowledge of meteorology, are the creations of modern technology, particularly electronic-eyed weather satellites like Tiros and Nimbus and high-speed computers that can digest and interpret weather data.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tiros II has five detectors that measure different kinds of infra-red radiation coming up from the earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new Tiros carries two identical wide-angle TV cameras to take pictures of cloud patterns above the earth's surface and a new array of infra-red sensors to measure heat that the earth radiates into space.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the satellites so far shot into orbit, perhaps the most useful to man was Tiros I, the "weather eye," whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tiros are prone to it, because they at first instinctively endeavour to work with arms rather than with body.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
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