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SCANNING RADIOMETER

Specialty Definition: SCANNING RADIOMETER

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Post & Telecom

A radiometer, which by the use of a rotating or oscillating plane mirror, can scan a path normal to the movement of the radiometer. Source: European Union. (references)

Science

An imaging system consisting of lenses, moving mirrors, and solid-state image sensors used to obtain observations of the Earth and its atmosphere. Scanning radiometers, which are the sole imaging systems on all current operational weather satellites, have far better long-term performance than the vidicon TV camera tubes used with earlier spacecraft. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SCANNING RADIOMETER

Specialty definitions using "SCANNING RADIOMETER": Enhanced Thematic Mapper PlusMeasurements of Pollution in the Troposphere. (references)

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Modern Translation: SCANNING RADIOMETER

Language Translations for "SCANNING RADIOMETER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skanderings-radiometer. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

radiometer voor aftasting. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pyyhkäisyradiometri. (various references)

   

French

  

radiomètre à balayage (scanner). (various references)

   

Italian

  

radiometro a scansione. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anningscay adiometerray

   

Portuguese

  

radiómetro de exploração. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

radiómetro de exploración, radiómetro barredor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCANNING RADIOMETER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-r-r-s-t"

-4 letters: disarrangement, intransigeance, reincarnations.

-5 letters: containerised, craniometries, deracinations, emarginations, geometricians, inconsiderate, intransigence, miscegenation, nondecreasing, reactionaries, reconsidering, reincarnating, reincarnation, tragicomedies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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