English Explanatory Dictionary

stubby Hubble

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A spy satellite with a design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope.
  2. A satellite of this class, with a shorter telescope tube than Hubble, similar mirror-size class, and wider field-of-view.

Word forms

stubby Hubble stubby Hubbles

Etymology

stubby + Hubble. From being a telescope similar to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with a shortened tube (ie. a stub). The HST itself is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble.

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