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This is a glossary of antenna-related terms, derived from the Glossary of Telecommunication Terms published as Federal Standard 1037C. Please see the Federal List of antenna terms Standard article for copyright-related issues, as not all parts of the source document are in the public domain.
- acceptance pattern
- antenna
- aperiodic antenna
- aperture (antenna)
- aperture illumination
- aperture-to-medium coupling loss
- beam
- beam diameter
- beam divergence
- beam steering
- beamwidth
- biconical antenna
- billboard antenna
- boresight
- Cassegrain antenna
- collinear antenna array
- corner reflector
- counterpoise
- departure angle
- despun antenna
- diplex operation
- dipole antenna
- directional antenna
- direct ray
- driven element
- effective antenna gain contour (of a steerable satellite beam)
- effective boresight area (of a steerable satellite beam)
- effective height
- effective isotropically radiated power (e.i.r.p.)
- effective monopole radiated power (e.m.r.p.) (in a given direction)
- effective radiated power (e.r.p.) (in a given direction)
- fan-beam antenna
- far-field radiation pattern
- far-field region
- feed
- Fractal antenna
- Fresnel zone
- front-to-back ratio
- ground plane
- helical antenna
- heterodyne repeater
- horn
- hybrid coupler
- image antenna
- intermediate-field region
- isotropic antenna
- lobe
- log-periodic antenna (LP)
- loop
- main lobe
- multicoupler
- multi-element dipole antenna
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- natural frequency
- near-field region
- null
- omnidirectional antenna
- orthomode transducer
- parabolic antenna
- parasitic element
- periodic antenna
- periscope antenna
- phased array
- planar array
- plural of antenna
- propagation mode
- radiation pattern
- radiation resistance
- radio beam
- radio horizon
- radio horizon range (RHR)
- radio range
- reference antenna
- reflective array antenna
- rhombic antenna
- shadow loss
- side lobe
- single-polarized antenna
- skip zone
- sky wave
- slewing
- slot antenna
- slotted waveguide
- space diversity
- spillover
- spot beam
- T2FD antenna
- test antenna
- uniform linear array
- waveguide antenna
- whip antenna
- Yagi antenna
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Electronics Topics
The field of electronics is the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. The design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems is part of the fields of electronic engineering, and the hardware design side of computer engineering. The study of new semiconductor devices and their technology is sometimes considered as a branch of physics.
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