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Definition of Aerials

1. aerial [n] - See also: aerial

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aerials

Literary usage of Aerials

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"The fundamental principles of design of aerials are given in this paper. On the basis of this work the actual functioning of any type of radio aerial can be ..."

2. Harper's Wireless Book: How to Use Wireless Electricity in Telegraphing by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"Perhaps the aerials, or antenna, are the most familiar part of a wireless ... The aerials are, so to speak, the ears and mouth of the wireless station, ..."

3. The Book of Radio by Charles William Taussig (1922)
"CHAPTER XIII aerials AND GROUNDS, COUNTERPOISE AND LIGHTNING PROTECTION Receiving aerials—Keep away from steel buildings and trees— Using trees as supports ..."

4. Wireless Telegraphy by Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (1915)
"The aerials at the Receiving Stations.—The waves sent out by a transmitter result in an electromagnetic alternating field, which may be a rotating field, ..."

5. Operator's Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Handbook: A Complete Treatise on by Victor Hugo Laughter (1918)
"aerials. The aerial, or technically called antennae elevation, consists of a wire or number of wires strung in the air to intercept the wave and conduct ..."

6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1844)
"Such must not take offence, if we remind them that they uro altogether inconsistent with the perfection of the saintly character. The two great "aerials" of ..."

7. Manual of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony by Archie Frederick Collins (1913)
"large capacity aerials are not needed, and it is often well; ... Types of aerials.—There are several types of aerial wire systems and among the ..."

8. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming (1908)
"Another of these looped aerials is described by Slaby and Arco in their German ... If two simple straight aerials are set up side by side, and acted upon by ..."

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