superantenna

English edit

Etymology edit

From super- +‎ antenna.

Noun edit

superantenna (plural superantennas or superantennae)

An extremely powerful antenna.
- 1961, Stan Opotowsky, TV: The Big Picture, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 248:
  The idea is to build one superantenna in the town and then pipe its reception by wire into the subscriber's living-room set.
- 1985, Thomas L. Tedford, Freedom of Speech in the United States, Carbondale, I.L., Edwardsville, I.L.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 404, column 1:
  The firms employed strategically located superantennas to pick up distant signals, which were then amplified and sent directly into the homes of subscribers by means of a wire called a coaxial cable.
- 1987, Peter Utz, Today's Video: Equipment, Setup, and Production, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 32:
  Experiment—who knows, you may discover a revolutionary new shape for the superantenna of the future.
- 2010 March 18, Ian Sample, “Cloaking device makes objects invisible – to infrared light anyway”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:
  Beyond military applications, cloaking devices are drawing interest from telecommunications companies, who see them as a way to send information by light more efficiently. One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams.
- 2014 May 20, Geoff Brumfiel, “Big Bang's Ripples: Two Scientists Recall Their Big Discovery”, in NPR‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-01-24:
  Known as "Project Echo," the experiment used this superantenna to bounce a signal off a giant mylar balloon in orbit above the Earth. The call went from a site in Holmdel, N.J., near the laboratory headquarters, out to Goldstone in California.
- 2015, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 285:
  The problem with solar outages was not resolved, but another exciting possibility presented itself: Humans could use the sun as a superantenna, and, through it, broadcast radio waves to the universe.