EGAVE

omnidirectional

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective In every direction, especially of a radio system capable of transmitting or receiving signals in all directions, or of a microphone capable of detecting sound from all directions.
    An omnidirectional radio beacon.
  2. adjective Having a ring-shaped radiation pattern, with equal radiation in all azimuthal directions.
  3. adjective Of such an attack or effect: that encompasses all directions.

Similar words

hydrophone full-scale all-around holistic all-round comprehensive all-encompassing omni polydirectional equidirectional

Often followed by

antenna antennas microphone range and microphones pattern radio flux

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