BEAMWIDTH

Domain	Definition
Science	The measure of the 'width' of an antenna pattern, measured in degrees of arc. Generally an antenna with low gain has a wide pattern, receiving signals well from a number of different directions. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Beamwidth

In telecommunication, the term beamwidth has the following meanings:

1. In the radio regime, of an antenna pattern, the angle between the half-power (3-dB) points of the main lobe, when referenced to the peak effective radiated power of the main lobe.

Note: Beamwidth is usually expressed in degrees. It is usually expressed for the horizontal plane, but may also be expressed for the vertical plane.

2. For the optical regime, see beam divergence.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

Usage Frequency: BEAMWIDTH

"BEAMWIDTH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BEAMWIDTH" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: BEAMWIDTH

Language		Translations for "BEAMWIDTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		sugárszélesség. (various references)

Pig Latin		eamwidthbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BEAMWIDTH

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