The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antenna \An*ten"na\, n.; pl. Antenn[ae]. [L. antenna sail-yard; NL., a feeler, horn of an insect.]
(Zo["o]l.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.
(Electronics) A metallic device, variously shaped, designed for the purpose of either transmitting or receiving radio waves, as for radio or television broadcasting, or for transmitting communication signals. Some types are: whip antenna, antenna tower, horn antenna, dish antenna, directional antenna and rabbit ears. See transmitter, receiver.
Usage examples of "antenna tower".
Somewhere topside, perhaps even on the antenna tower Tommy had discovered earlier, would be a TV antenna with a rotator so the Yagi elements could be oriented toward KEY-TV, the Channel 3 transmitter on Broadcast Peak near Santa Bonita, or possibly KCOY, the Channel 12 station out of Santa Maria, its transmitter located line-of-sight on Tepesquet Peak some 15 miles from Thundergust.
The FCC antenna tower database made it clear that no appropriate towers existed in Grantville for an AM radio station.
A man sat on a corner of the roof with his legs crossed and his back to an antenna tower, playing an ocarina.
As he squinted up at the ice-wrapped antenna tower, the boy projected to Rogi dramatic imaginary pictures of the way this place might look in a howling blizzard with the wind blowing two hundred miles an hour.