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antenna

[an-ten-uh] / ænˈtɛn ə /
NOUN
appendages for sensing, usually on insects or electronics
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As the hulking antenna swivels into action, screens inside the control room light up with the names of objects the radar system detects: stars, satellites and abandoned rocket bodies.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Each antenna had to emit the same amount of light.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

At that time, she was living in Kyongsong, a coastal county in the North, where families could pick up TV signals across the water with an antenna.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

This helped eliminate extremely weak false detections as well as unusually strong instrumental artifacts that typically appear in only one antenna.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

The tiny box has silver antenna rods, and its curved screen is framed by a wood-grain border, with two chrome dials and a teeny-tiny built-in speaker.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

This structure separates spiders and their relatives from insects, which instead have antennae at the front of their bodies.

From Science Daily Apr. 3, 2026

Using satellite images, shore-based antennae, data and other sources, Kpler aims to reconstruct the trajectory of a vessel that has "gone dark," he added.

From Barron's Mar. 31, 2026

Then the beetle seeks out an ant — climbing on top of it, clasping its antennae in its jaws and scooping up its pheromones with brush-like legs.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2026

Today, there’s a Christmas tree fashioned out of communication antennae on her bow.

From Salon Dec. 24, 2025

They sat on the thorns and waved their antennae slowly.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

They then used this theoretical framework to guide the design and computer simulation of the antennas.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

They changed the width of the antennas as well as the size and placement of the corrugations.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Placing the antennas close together creates a serious obstacle.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

The MIT team instead created a repeating set of three antennas with distinct shapes.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

All I saw were these tubes jutting out from either side of my head—like antennas.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio




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