rectennan.
/rɛkˈtɛnə/, U.S. /rɛkˈtɛnə/ An electrical unit combining a receiving aerial and a device for rectifying the current it produces; esp. one used in the conversion of solar energy to electricity.
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1964 W. C. Brown & R. H. George in IEEE Spectrum Oct. 92/1 This requirement ultimately led to a successful attempt to combine the receiving antenna and rectifier into one device termed the ‘Rectenna’, an acronym for rectifying antenna.
1977 Indian Express 18 Aug. 6 A micro-wave beam is directed to rectenna on the ground.
1994 Asimov's Sci. Fic. July 45 A thousand invisible megawatts of beamed microwave power..was rectified into direct current by our kilometer-wide superconducting rectenna.
2007 Acta Astronautica 60 159/1 The balloon is moored to the rectenna site on the ground.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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