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antenna farm

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: an area of land on which many communications antennas or satellite dishes are clustered together The solution was to scrap many of the old methods—using massive antenna farms to collect outdated high frequency communications …— James Bamford, Newsweek, 19 May 2001

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1951, in the meaning defined above

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