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spillover

The part of the system noise (see sensitivity) of a radio telescope using a dish antenna that results from pick-up by the feed – the secondary antenna – from directions that do not intercept the reflecting surface of the dish.
Collins Dictionary of Astronomy © Market House Books Ltd, 2006

spillover

[′spil‚ō·vər]
(communications)
The receiving of a radio signal of a different frequency from that to which the receiver is tuned, due to broad tuning characteristics.
(meteorology)
That part of orographic precipitation which is carried along by the wind so that it reaches the ground in the nominal rain shadow on the lee side of the barrier.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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