"pizza dish" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pizza dishes [plural]
Etymology: From its similarity in shape and size to a pizza. Head templates: {{en-noun}} pizza dish (plural pizza dishes)
  1. (informal, telecommunications) A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Pizza, Telecommunications Related terms: minidish

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: big ugly dish"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet)",
          "text": "True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling programmers to continue to provide C-band programming.",
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        "A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter."
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        "(informal, telecommunications) A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter."
      ],
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      ],
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        "telecommunications"
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          "text": "True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling programmers to continue to provide C-band programming.",
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