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US
/ænˈtɛnə/
]
NOUN
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sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ
he had a special antenna for public relations - one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
- an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
How To Use antenna In A Sentence
- Its hard drive can store 100 movies, and an antenna receives new films via broadcast airwaves.
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
- The mast will have six antennae and four dishes.
- The two antennas 'squinted' to view the same point on Earth. Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
- The most common is what's called a dipole antenna, a good example being those T-shaped, plastic covered wires that came with home stereo sets once upon a time. Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
- Use should also be made of existing buildings and other structures, such as electricity pylons, to site new antennas.
- It is necessary to design the antenna properly or system performance will be degraded.
- an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally
- But large antennae mean low overall productivity. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- As for communications equipment, the snipers need small, easily packable radios and a good directional antenna to allow for longer-range communications.
