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means A dish-shaped antenna that catches signals beamed from orbiting satellites and focuses them into a receiver, usually for TV, internet, or phone links.

from 'Satellite' traces back through French to Latin 'satelles,' meaning an attendant or bodyguard — someone who orbits a powerful figure. By the 17th century astronomers borrowed the word for moons that orbit planets, and in the 20th century it was extended again to man-made objects circling Earth. 'Dish' is just the plain old word for a shallow curved container, repurposed because the receiver's shape — concave, bowl-like — happens to be ideal for gathering and focusing faint radio signals, the same geometry that makes a soup bowl good at holding soup.