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speckle interferometry

noun

Definition of SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY

:  a technique for generating a clear composite image of a celestial object blurred by atmospheric turbulence in which a large number of short-exposure photographs are mathematically correlated by a computer
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First Known Use of SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY

1970

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