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satellite dish
noun
: a microwave dish for receiving usually television transmissions from an orbiting satellite
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The company best known for providing the traditional TV bundle through satellite dishes has been tapping star power to get its message across that, actually, customers can watch DirecTV without a satellite dish.
—Jacob Pramuk,michele Luhn,sara Salinas, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
Technicians strung cables connecting multiple households in a neighborhood to a source satellite dish.
—Laura-Zoë Humphreys and Daymar Valdés Frigola / Made By History, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Though most people were gone, a thick layer of ash coated the remnants of their lives — a satellite dish, lawn furniture, a quaint greenhouse and potted plants.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
The fourth in a string of Banksy works has appeared in London: a howling wolf stenciled onto a white satellite dish.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 8 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1962, in the meaning defined above
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“Satellite dish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satellite%20dish. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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satellite dish
noun
: a microwave dish for receiving usually television transmissions from an orbiting satellite
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