dish aerial

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   directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

   Synonymsdishdish antennasaucer

   Broaderdirectional antenna

   Narrowerscanner

   Part ofradarradio telescope

Questions about dish aerial

What does dish aerial mean?

dish aerial means "directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation".

What is another word for dish aerial?

Close synonyms include dish, dish antenna, saucer. 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 dish aerial a common word?

dish aerial 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.