antenna

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans

   The word antenna appears in scientific writing with a precise technical sense.

2. 2
   noun

   an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

   The word antenna appears in scientific writing with a precise technical sense.

3. 3
   noun

   sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ

   The communications team had a special antenna for public relations.

From Latin antenna, antemna (“yard, sailyard; pole”). First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century and as an English word by the end of the 17th century.

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