SATELLITE TELEVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does satellite television mean? 

• SATELLITE TELEVISION (noun)
  The noun SATELLITE TELEVISION has 1 sense:

1. a television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth

  Familiarity information: SATELLITE TELEVISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SATELLITE TELEVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

satellite television; satellite TV

Hypernyms ("satellite television" is a kind of...):

television; television system (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)