dish antenna

American  

[dish-an-ten-uh] / ˈdɪʃ ænˌtɛn ə /

noun

• dish antennas
  plural

1. Telecommunications. a round, concave antenna for receiving electromagnetic waves; an antenna shaped like a shallow dish; satellite dish.

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dish antenna Scientific  

/ dĭsh /

1. See parabolic antenna

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Noun Inflected Forms

• dish antennas
  plural

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dish antenna

July 12, when NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge beamed the song via a 112-foot-wide radio dish antenna near Barstow, Calif.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024

On Wednesday, NASA’s Deep Space Network sent a new command in hopes of repointing the antenna, using the highest powered transmitter at the huge radio dish antenna in Australia.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

This type of system works a little differently than Starlink: A customer’s small dish antenna listens to and talks with the geostationary Kacific1 satellite.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 18, 2022

Practically every house, including Mr. Roth’s, seems to have a TV dish antenna.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2018

Baby Kochamma had installed a dish antenna on the roof of the Ayemenem house.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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