spot beam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A satellite signal that is specially concentrated in power (i.e. sent by a high-gain antenna) so that it will cover only a limited geographic area on Earth.

Word forms

spot beam spot beams spotbeam

Etymology

From spot + beam.

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