Etymology

Yagi-Uda antenna

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.