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superantenna

superantenna noun: an extremely powerful antenna.

Noun

superantenna (plural superantennas or superantennae)

  1. An extremely powerful antenna.
    • The idea is to build one superantenna in the town and then pipe its reception by wire into the subscriber's living-room set.1961, Stan Opotowsky, TV: The Big Picture, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 248
    • The firms employed strategically located superantennas to pick up distant signals, which were then amplified and sent directly into the homes of subscribers by means of a wire called a coaxial cable.1985, Thomas L. Tedford, Freedom of Speech in the United States, Carbondale, I.L.; Edwardsville, I.L.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 404, column 1

Examples of superantenna in a sentence

  • Experiment—who knows, you may discover a revolutionary new shape for the superantenna of the future.1987, Peter Utz, Today's Video: Equipment, Setup, and Production, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 32:
  • One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams.2010 March 18, Ian Sample, “Cloaking device makes objects invisible – to infrared light anyway”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian...
  • Known as "Project Echo," the experiment used this superantenna to bounce a signal off a giant mylar balloon in orbit above the Earth.2014 May 20, Geoff Brumfiel, “Big Bang's Ripples: Two Scientists Recall Their Big Discovery”, in NPR, archived from the original on 24 Jan...
  • The problem with solar outages was not resolved, but another exciting possibility presented itself: Humans could use the sun as a superantenna, and, through it, broadcast radio waves to the universe.2015, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 285:

Forms of superantenna

pluralsuperantennas
pluralsuperantennae

Origin of superantenna

From super- + antenna.

Questions about superantenna

What does superantenna mean?
Superantenna means an extremely powerful antenna.
How do you use superantenna in a sentence?
Experiment—who knows, you may discover a revolutionary new shape for the superantenna of the future.
What part of speech is superantenna?
Superantenna is a noun.
What is the plural of superantenna?
The plural of superantenna is superantennas.

Words near superantenna in the dictionary

  1. superannuations
  2. superannuitant
  3. superannuitants
  4. superanoxia
  5. superanoxic
  6. superantenna
  7. superantennae
  8. superantennas
  9. superantigen
  10. superantigenic
  11. superantigenicity

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