RADIATION PATTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiation pattern mean? 

• RADIATION PATTERN (noun)
  The noun RADIATION PATTERN has 1 sense:

1. graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

  Familiarity information: RADIATION PATTERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIATION PATTERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pattern; radiation diagram; radiation pattern

Hypernyms ("radiation pattern" is a kind of...):

graph; graphical record; graphical recording (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)

Meronyms (parts of "radiation pattern"):

lobe (the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern)