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.
American Heritage Medicine
Origin of Antenna
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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
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