"rectenna" meaning in All languages combined

See rectenna on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: rectennas [plural], rectennae [plural]
Etymology: Blend of rectifying + antenna Etymology templates: {{blend|en|rectifying|antenna}} Blend of rectifying + antenna Head templates: {{en-noun|s|rectennae}} rectenna (plural rectennas or rectennae)
  1. A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity. Wikipedia link: rectenna

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rectifying",
        "3": "antenna"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of rectifying + antenna",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of rectifying + antenna",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rectennas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rectennae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "rectennae"
      },
      "expansion": "rectenna (plural rectennas or rectennae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Pai-Yen Chen, Mehdi Hajizadegan, Maryam Sakhdari, Andrea Alù, “Giant Photoresponsivity of Mid-Infrared Hyperbolic Metamaterials in the Quantum Regime”, in arXiv:",
          "text": "This leads to highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion, orders of magnitude larger than conventional rectennas.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity."
      ],
      "id": "en-rectenna-en-noun-8quozw~~",
      "links": [
        [
          "antenna",
          "antenna"
        ],
        [
          "convert",
          "convert"
        ],
        [
          "microwave",
          "microwave"
        ],
        [
          "energy",
          "energy"
        ],
        [
          "direct current",
          "direct current"
        ],
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "rectenna"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rectenna"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rectifying",
        "3": "antenna"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of rectifying + antenna",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of rectifying + antenna",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rectennas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rectennae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "rectennae"
      },
      "expansion": "rectenna (plural rectennas or rectennae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Pai-Yen Chen, Mehdi Hajizadegan, Maryam Sakhdari, Andrea Alù, “Giant Photoresponsivity of Mid-Infrared Hyperbolic Metamaterials in the Quantum Regime”, in arXiv:",
          "text": "This leads to highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion, orders of magnitude larger than conventional rectennas.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "antenna",
          "antenna"
        ],
        [
          "convert",
          "convert"
        ],
        [
          "microwave",
          "microwave"
        ],
        [
          "energy",
          "energy"
        ],
        [
          "direct current",
          "direct current"
        ],
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "rectenna"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rectenna"
}

Download raw JSONL data for rectenna meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (3fd8a50 and 59b8406). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.