Antenna Definition

ăn-tĕnə
antennae, antennas
noun
antennae, antennas
Either of a pair of movable, jointed sense organs on the head of most arthropods, as insects, crabs, or lobsters; feeler.
Webster's New World
An arrangement of wires, metal rods, etc. used in sending and receiving electromagnetic waves; aerial.
Webster's New World
A metallic apparatus for sending or receiving electromagnetic waves.
American Heritage
A single rod or wire acting as such an antenna for a small television or radio receiver, cell phone, etc.
Webster's New World
One of the paired, flexible, segmented sensory appendages on the head of an insect, myriapod, or crustacean functioning primarily as an organ of touch.
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Noun

Singular:
antenna
Plural:
antennae, antenn, antennas

Origin of Antenna

  • From Latin antenna, nautical term for yard and common term for pole, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch, extend”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin from Latin sail yard translation of Greek keraia insect feeler, yardarm

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Antenna Sentence Examples

  • This elevated conductor is now called the antenna, aerial wire, or air wire.

  • The detachable antenna is easy to lose and it would be better with a solid one.

  • The wheel was connected to a receiving antenna and the mercury to earth or to an equivalent balancing capacity.

  • This condenser is charged electrically and then suddenly discharged and violent electrical oscillations are set up in it, that is to say, electricity rushes to and fro between the antenna and the earth.

  • It was then found that when electric waves fell on the antenna a sound was heard in the telephone as each wave train passed over it, so that if the wave trains endured for a longer or shorter time the sound in the telephone was of corresponding duration.

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