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pizza dish

pizza dish noun: a Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.

pizza dish: a Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches...
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Noun

pizza dish (plural pizza dishes)

  1. (informal) A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.
    • True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling...2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet)

Forms of pizza dish

pluralpizza dishes

Origin of pizza dish

From its similarity in shape and size to a pizza.

Questions about pizza dish

What does pizza dish mean?
Pizza dish means a Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.
What part of speech is pizza dish?
Pizza dish is a noun.
What is the plural of pizza dish?
The plural of pizza dish is pizza dishes.

Words near pizza dish in the dictionary

  1. pizza casseroles
  2. pizza crunch
  3. pizza crunches
  4. pizza cutter
  5. pizza cutters
  6. pizza dish
  7. pizza dishes
  8. pizza eggs
  9. pizza face
  10. pizza faces
  11. pizza farm

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