dipole antenna

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   an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center

   Synonymsdipole

   Broaderantenna

Questions about dipole antenna

What does dipole antenna mean?

dipole antenna means "an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center".

What is another word for dipole antenna?

Close synonyms include dipole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dipole antenna a common word?

dipole antenna is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.