Antenna

(noun.) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste.

(noun.) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals.

(noun.) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; 'he had a special antenna for public relations'.

卡蜜拉整理

• When the wireless operator wishes to send a message to another station he listens in, as it is called, by connecting his receiving apparatus with the adjacent antenna and the ground. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The antenna has electrical capacity, and when it is connected with the other apparatus needful to produce the oscillations it disturbs the earth’s magnetic field. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The larger the antenna the longer will be the wave length and the greater the power of the apparatus. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• One is to insert a hot-wire current meter between the antenna and the inductance, which indicates the strength of the oscillatory current that has been established. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• On ships the antenna is fastened to the masts. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The great shipping lines established wireless stations on their vessels, and the antenna were soon to be seen on points of vantage along every coast. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Wireless stations on shore are marked by very tall masts, which support a single wire, or a set of wires, which are known as the _antenna_. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• For temporary service, as in the case of military operations, the antenna is frequently attached to captive balloons or kites, and so suspended high in air. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Fabre, as an active, minute insect, furnished with six legs, two long antennae, and four eyes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

整理:伊冯