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satellite tv

n. satellite television

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satellite TV

n. a television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth [syn: satellite television]

Usage examples of "satellite tv".

The ship's officers mainly had their wives along, for whom the voyages were extended, if rather boring, pleasure cruises: Every modern tanker had a swimming pool and a deck for tanning, plus satellite TV for news and entertainment.

After three hours he got tired of watching satellite TV, and took a walk, accompanied by a discreet security guard.

Even satellite TV, plus the usual Chevy pickup truck with a gun-rack in the back window .

He's got satellite TV, but you were there once, you know there's not a whole lot a fifteen-year-old girl wants to do in the middle of nowhere.

A huge snowstorm had knocked out their power and frozen up their satellite TV system.

The place looked dead, but there was a newer pizza-dish-sized satellite TV antenna on the roof, and another, old-style dish on the lawn out back, so we figured somebody probably lived there.

Susic was in his office, staying late so he could watch the satellite TV broadcast available only in the headquarters building.

He walked out of his personal, finely adorned bedroom into the large living room of the central air-conditioned mansion to watch his satellite TV in the hopes of catching a WNN report.

Fleet had fought Fleet in ocean battles, watched eagerly by hundreds of millions on satellite TV, the ultimate victor rising from its Inter-State League, through Continental to World League, and Colossus had been umpire and final arbiter in all Games.