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aerial

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1. aerial - Noun

2. aerial - Adjective

3. aerial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.

Light as air; ethereal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. Alexander Graham Bell

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. Jeremy Hardy

We [The Futurists] stand for a use of colour free from the imitation of objects and things as coloured objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of colour is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create. Carlo Carrà

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enourmously destructive and entirely indecisive. H. G. Wells

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now. Kate Bush

The aerial canoe had no visible means of support, he thought, and it was a measure of his terror that he did not even think about his pun. No visible means of support. Like a magical vessel out of The Thousand and One Nights. Philip José Farmer

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