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VLA

American  
Astronomy.
  1. Very Large Array.


VLA British  

abbreviation

  1. very large array

"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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Much of this comes from a new kind of AI known as a VLA model, short for vision-language-action.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

The automaker recently unveiled its VLA 2.0 autonomous-driving system, powered by its own chips, planning global deliveries in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

The researchers combined observational data from Chandra and the VLA with an independent estimate of the black hole's mass from other telescopes to inform the outflow method and determine the black hole's spin.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

Built between 1973 and 1981, the VLA comprises 28 large, 25m diameter, dish antennas spaced out across a desert plain.

From BBC Feb. 21, 2024

The VLA is able to resolve or discriminate fine detail in the radio regions of the spectrum comparable to what the largest ground-based telescopes can do in the optical region of the spectrum.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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