radome

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UK/ˈɹeɪ.dəʊm/US/ˈɹeɪˌdoʊm/

noun

Synonym of radar dome.

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nounradome (plural radomes)

plural radomes

  1. Synonym of radar dome.

    Radar antennas were distributed in large quantities throughout the base, half of them in white radomes that looked as if some gigantic bird had laid a clutch of eggs at random.

    2019, Joel Martinsen, transl., Supernova Era, Tor, page 233
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    And it took my mother just twenty or so minutes to get to her new job at the NSA, whose boxy futuristic headquarters, topped with radomes and sheathed in copper to seal in the communications signals, forms the heart of Fort Meade.

    2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 36

    Synonyms: radar dome

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of radar dome.

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nouna housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves

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Origin

Blend of radar + dome. First attested in the 1940s.

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APA

radome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radome

MLA

“radome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “radome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radome.

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