aerial

a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer

an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

in or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air

• “aerial particles”
• “small aerial creatures such as butterflies”
• “aerial warfare”
• “aerial photography”
• “aerial cable cars”

growing in air

• “aerial roots of a philodendron”

characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

• “figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away” Thomas Carlyle
• “aerial fancies”
• “an airy apparition”
• “physical rather than ethereal forms”