Meanings
plural Yagi-Uda antennas
- broadcastingA 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.
Synonyms: Yagi antenna, yagi
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Origin
Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 八木天線 /八木天线
- 八木天線 /八木天线 (Bāmù tiānxiàn)type of directional antenna
Dutch Yagi-Uda-antenne, Yagi-antenne
- Yagi-Uda-antennetype of directional antenna
- Yagi-antennetype of directional antenna
Polish antena Yagi, antena Yagi-Uda
- antena Yagitype of directional antenna
- antena Yagi-Udatype of directional antenna
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Yagi-Uda antenna. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yagi-Uda%20antenna
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