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antenna

[an-ten-uh] / ænˈtɛn ə /
NOUN
appendages for sensing, usually on insects or electronics
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In a conventional OPA, every antenna has an identical structure and uses the same pattern of corrugations.

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

"Our goal was to rethink MRI hardware from the modern physics of antenna design," adds Saha.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

On July 1, extreme climbers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus announced their engagement by scaling the Empire State Building and unfurling a banner from its famous antenna that proclaimed the healing power of love.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

The boy who’d fled from the hospital must have left the shirt on the antenna of Officer Delinko’s squad car, obviously as some sort of joke.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

From Salon Dec. 24, 2025

But these locations also make it easy for thieves to approach and use an antennae to capture the signal from outside the door.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2025

They sat on the thorns and waved their antennae slowly.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Based on those calculations, the team manufactured an OPA containing the reduced-crosstalk antennas.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

"Because the antennas have very different propagation coefficients, when we put them close together, essentially each antenna doesn't 'see' the antenna next to it. Therefore, it won't couple with its neighbor," Garcia Coleto says.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Because the antennas have different geometries, each one also has a different propagation coefficient, which describes how light moves through the structure.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

To overcome this tradeoff, the MIT researchers developed antennas with reduced crosstalk that can be positioned close together without strongly coupling.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

“Rats give many fish,” said the roach, cleaning its antennas casually.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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