Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yagi-uda antenna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables: yag-i-u-da an-ten-na
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of directional antenna with one driven element and one or more parasitic elements; a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.

Etymology

Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.

Inflected Forms

Yagi-Uda antennas (plural)

Synonyms

Yagi antenna yagi

Questions

What does yagi-uda antenna mean?: A type of directional antenna with one driven element and one or more parasitic elements; a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.
Where does yagi-uda antenna come from?: Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.

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