parabolic antenna

1. 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.

2. Also called dish antenna

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The low spiral creates a traditional Indigenous basketry form — Clarke, born in Hemet, is an enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians — embedded into a high-tech parabolic antenna designed to transmit or receive information between near and far.

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While Israeli authorities were conducting surveillance in Kadar’s neighborhood, they noticed a large parabolic antenna connected to his apartment unit.

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But if you look closer, that ’57 Chevy’s engine is probably made of newer parts, and behind that colonial façade sits a parabolic antenna that residents use to illegally intercept foreign TV channels beamed to the big tourist hotels.

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"One family has an illegal parabolic antenna hidden in a pseudo watertank and can transmit to 200 to 300 families who pay a monthly fee," said Sanchez, who has pioneered the use of social media to challenge Cuba's one-party system.

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The motel management had evaded the National Football League's TV blackout in cities where games are being played by erecting a high-sensitivity parabolic antenna that picked up the telecast of the Dolphin game from a TV station in Fort Myers, 149 miles away.

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