Antenna

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Zoology One of the paired, flexible, segmented sensory appendages on the head of an insect, myriapod, or crustacean functioning primarily as an organ of touch.
  • n. Something likened to this sensory appendage, as in function or form: sensitive public relations antennae.
  • n. A metallic apparatus for sending or receiving electromagnetic waves.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
  • n. An apparatus to receive or transmit radio waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  • n. The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.
  • n. A metallic device, variously shaped, designed for the purpose of either transmitting or receiving radio waves, as for radio or television broadcasting, or for transmitting communication signals. Some types are: whip antenna, antenna tower, horn antenna, dish antenna, directional antenna and rabbit ears. See transmitter, receiver.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of the lateral articulated appendages occurring in pairs on that segment of the head of an arthropod animal, as an insect, which immediately precedes the mouth or mandibular segment; a feeler or ‘horn.’
  • n. An analogous organ on the heads of other animals, as a feeler or tentacle, like the eye-stalk of a snail.
  • n. plural Projecting horns of iron or bronze found on some ancient helmets, perhaps serving only as ornaments, or as badges, or in some cases to stop a blow from glancing downward and striking the shoulder.
  • n. In Rotifera, a spur-like process bearing a tuft of setæ and projecting from the mid-dorsal line close to the trochal disk. Same as calcar, 4.
  • n. In electricity, the vertical conductor used in wireless telegraphy to send out electric waves (sender) or receive them (receiver).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
  • n. sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ
  • n. one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
  • Hypernym
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    Cross Reference
    antennæ    decussate   
    Variant
    antennae    transmitter    receiver   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    feeler    aerial   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bena    Brenna    Gena    Glenna    Jenna    Lorena    Modena    Ravenna    Senna    Sienna   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    transmitter    detector    receiver    cable    satellite    microphone    radio-    circuit    amplifier    coil