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    RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for "radio detection and ranging". The term radar has since entered English and other languages...
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  • In general, detection is the action of accessing information without specific cooperation from with the sender. In the history of radio communications...
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    These same techniques are used for detection and tracking of conventional aircraft. Earth-based receivers can detect radio signals emanating from distant...
    73 KB (10,441 words) - 12:04, 5 August 2024
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    until 1952, when Robert Hanbury Brown and Cyril Hazard reported a radio detection at 158.5 MHz, obtained at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. This was confirmed...
    20 KB (2,224 words) - 16:46, 30 July 2024
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    the initial letters of the words of a phrase, such as radar from "radio detection and ranging". By contrast, a backronym is "an acronym deliberately...
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    doi:10.1007/s11214-020-00647-0. Zarka, P.; Pederson, B.M. (1986). "Radio detection of uranian lightning by Voyager 2". Nature. 323 (6089): 605-608. Bibcode:1986Natur...
    157 KB (15,532 words) - 11:43, 6 August 2024
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    Oppenheimer. His research involves high-energy collider physics and the radio detection of cosmic neutrinos, and in 2018, he was inducted as a fellow of the...
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    also LIDAR, LiDAR or LADAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranges...
    130 KB (14,775 words) - 04:10, 31 July 2024
  • free dictionary. Radar is an acronym for "radio detection and ranging", referring to a system for using radio waves to detect and track the position of...
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  • Thumbnail for History of radar
    radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected...
    151 KB (22,278 words) - 05:42, 28 July 2024
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    #10697: Real-time detection of a Fast Radio Burst at the Molonglo Radio Telescope". The Astronomer's Telegram. Farah, W. "ATel #10867: Detection of a highly...
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  • Thumbnail for Acronym
    For example, radar for radio detection and ranging, consisting of syllabic abbreviation ra for radio and acronym dar for detection and ranging.. Some acronyms...
    119 KB (14,107 words) - 14:03, 4 August 2024
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    radio astrometry using the VLBA has been used to discover planets in orbit around TVLM 513-46546 and EQ Pegasi A. In September 2020, the detection of...
    134 KB (15,196 words) - 07:14, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Homodyne detection
    In electrical engineering, homodyne detection is a method of extracting information encoded as modulation of the phase and/or frequency of an oscillating...
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  • SN-2“ in the ME Bf 110G Radio direction finding Real time locating Lightning detection ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems –...
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  • commercial firms. Experimentation was also being done on radio communications with aircraft, detection of aircraft using sound and electromagnetic waves, and...
    31 KB (4,600 words) - 15:50, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Detection Club
    The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills...
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    Ray published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters titled 'Radio Detection of Green Peas: Implications for Magnetic Fields in Young Galaxies'...
    100 KB (12,658 words) - 05:06, 22 July 2024
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    demonstrated that a death ray was impossible but suggested radio could be used for long-range detection. In February 1935, a successful demonstration was arranged...
    114 KB (14,534 words) - 12:31, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radar altimeter
    the name implies, radar (radio detection and ranging) is the underpinning principle of the system. The system transmits radio waves down to the ground...
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