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Name: | interferometer |
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Description: | Any optical, acoustic, or microwave instruments that uses interference phenomena (patterns or fringes) between a reference wave and an experimental wave or between two parts of an experimental wave to make accurate measurements of wavelength, wave velocity, distance, etc. In astronomy, a radio or optical array consisting of two or more telescopes separated by a known distance and connected so that the radiation from a source in space undergoes interference, enabling the source to be imaged or th |
Type: | Noun |
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