parabolic antenna

[ păr′ə-bŏl′ĭk ]

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An antenna used for sending or receiving radio signals that uses the principle of a parabolic mirror to focus incoming signals onto one reception point or direct the emissions of signals from a focal source point into a directed beam. Parabolic antennae are used extensively in radio communications, especially with satellites, and in radar. Also called dish antenna

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Words nearby parabolic antenna

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How to use parabolic antenna in a sentence

The mission itself is simply a small computer powered by solar cells, with an antenna transmitting at 145.980 MHz.
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You cannot just come up with a vampire who is green and has an antenna.
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Holding a portable antenna high over his head, he surveyed the area as it emitted a series of telling bleeps.
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Yet with the phone simply "on," the scientists found a significant change in brain activity in the areas closest to its antenna.
Study Finds Cellphone Radiation Changes Brain Activity|Claudia Kalb|February 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST

His cellphone, he says proudly, is the kind that still has an antenna, and he uses it, naturally, only to make phone calls.
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For the antenna and lead-in and ground wires, Jessie purchased three hundred feet of copper wire, number fourteen.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
Farther from the center they become parabolic, but they are quite good over the entire plate, 3¼ by 4¼ inches.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters|James Edward Keeler
Its depth at the crown is 33 ft., and its centre line follows nearly the parabolic line of pressures.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
In spans over 200 ft. it is economical to have one horizontal boom and one polygonal (approximately parabolic) boom.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
The posterior are intermixed with round and square pieces, and the extremity of the armour near the tail is of a parabolic figure.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon