radome
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of radome
Example Sentences
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In the summer of 1978, the FAA decided to replace the Dulles radome with a hard plastic dome from Andrews Air Force Base.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2023
We’re going to learn a new word today: radome.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2023
The antenna will fit inside an existing radome in the aircraft’s tail.
From Forbes • Sep. 16, 2014
That underscores how remarkable it was last month when Mr. Childs publicly expressed disappointment with the decision by his clients not to build a radome, as such structures are known, to enclose the mast.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2012
Balanced like spokes on a bicycle wheel, protected from the weather by a golf-ball-looking dome that is the world's largest metal-frame radome, Haystack is now tuned and ready.
From Time Magazine Archive
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