antenna

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
    — The overall shape of most insect antennae is elongate and cylindrical, although elaborations into plumose, lamellate, or pectinate forms have arisen many times in different insect lineages.
  2. An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  3. The faculty of intuitive astuteness. figuratively
    — Most nurses believe they are born with an antenna of sorts, which is able to guide them through clinical practice and help them determine what is right and what is not...
  4. A fragment of an oligosaccharide
  5. The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

词形变化

antennae plural antennas plural antennæ archaic,plural

词源

From Latin antenna, antemna (“yard, sailyard; pole”). First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century and as an English word by the end of the 17th century.
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