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synthetic aperture.

Noun
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
MEANING

An effective sensing aperture formed by coherently combining measurements made at different positions or times.

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a moving sensor producing a more detailed image; measurements combined across a trajectory; an effective aperture distinguished from a physically giant antenna

Words that belong together

  • synthetic-aperture radar
  • a synthetic-aperture image

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Synthetic-aperture radar mapped the valley through the cloud cover.
The synthetic-aperture image blurred where the platform’s motion had been estimated badly.

Related words

synthetic-aperture sensingcoherent imagingaperture synthesis
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synthetic aperture

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Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular synthetic aperture; plural synthetic apertures. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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