aerial (redirected from Aerial (disambiguation))

aerial: see antenna, in electronics.

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antenna

 or aerial

Component of radio, television, and radar systems that directs incoming and outgoing radio waves. Usually of metal, antennas range in shape and size from the mastlike devices used for radio and television broadcasting to the large parabolic reflectors used to focus satellite signals and the radio waves generated by distant astronomical objects and reflect them toward the centrally located receiver. Antennas were invented in the 1880s by Heinrich Hertz; Guglielmo Marconi made many improvements.

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aerial

1. of or relating to aircraft

2. the part of a radio or television system having any of various shapes, such as a dipole, Yagi, long-wire, or vertical aerial, by means of which radio waves are transmitted or received

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aerial [′e·rē·əl]

(biology)

Of, in, or belonging to the air or atmosphere.

(electronics)

antenna

(ordnance)

Of or pertaining to operations in the air or to aircraft.

Of weapons or missiles used in aircraft or launched, dropped, or shot from aircraft.