Antenna

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Antenna (plural antennae or antennas) may refer to:

Contents 1 Science and engineering 2 Music 3 Broadcasting 4 Other uses

[edit] Science and engineering

• Antenna (radio), the component designed to send and receive radio waves;
• Antenna (biology), the sensing organs of several arthropods;
• Antennae galaxies, the name of two colliding galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039
• Antenna may refer to a radio telescope
• Antenna, in integrated circuit design, can refer to the charge collecting behaviour of a wire during fabrication. Hence the terms antenna effect and antenna rules which describe the effect and the rules which ensure that the buildup of charge above a threshold (which can damage the oxide in the transistor gates) is prevented.

[edit] Music

• Antenna, an album by the rock group ZZ Top
• Antenna, a 2003 album by Cave In
• Antenna, an Australian rock band, formed by Kim Salmon (The Scientists) and Dave Faulkner (Hoodoo Gurus)

[edit] Broadcasting

• ANT1, also known as Antenna, is a Greek-language terrestrial channel
• Antena 3 (Romania), a Romanian cable television channel from Romania
• Antena 3 (Spain), a Spanish terrestrial television channel from Spain

[edit] Other uses

• a 2004 Film with Susumu Terajima
• an artist on LTM
• Antennae [1] - The online Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (www.antennae.org.uk) Editor: Giovanni Aloi

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