antenna farm

noun

US

: 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The solution was to scrap many of the old methods—using massive antenna farms to collect outdated high frequency communications …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

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

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