| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb beacon.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (beacon) | 1. Shine like a beacon.[Wordnet]. 2. Guide with a beacon.[Wordnet]. 3. To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.[Websters]. 4. To furnish with a beacon or beacons.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: beaconing, beaconed, beacons, beaconer, beaconers, beaconingly and beaconedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BEACONING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Specialty Definition: beacon
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | 1. A light, group of lights, electronic apparatus, or other device that guides, orients, or warns aircraft, spacecraft, etc.in flight.2. A structure, building, or station where such a device is mounted or located. See radar beacon, radio beacon. (references) | ||
| Bible | Beacon a pole (Heb. to'ren) used as a standard or ensign set on the tops of mountains as a call to the people to assemble themselves for some great national purpose (Isa. 30:17). In Isa. 33:23 and Ezek. 27:5, the same word is rendered "mast." (See Banner.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Business | See radiobeacon station. (references) | ||
| Electrical Engineering | An assembly consisting of a light and its support and subsidiary structures, designed to give a light signal of a distinctive character to mark a geographical location, in order to assist navigation. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Energy | A fixed signal, mark, or light and associated facilities erected for the guidance of mariners or airplane pilots. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | 1: To furnish or mark with sea-marks. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Erection on land, or in shallow waters, intended as a guide or warning to vessels navigating in sight of it. May be fitted with a light, or lights, or may emit a radio signal. Always carries some distinctive characteristics so that it may be identified. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Labor | Bench marks realized in order to show a way, a track. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Law | BEACON. A signal erected as a sea mark for the use of mariners; also, to give warning of the approach of an enemy. 1 Com. Dig. 259; 5 Com. Dig. 173. (references) | ||
| Military | See crash locator beacon; fan marker beacon; localizer; meaconing; personal locator beacon; radio beacon; submarine locator acoustic beacon; Z marker beacon. (references) | ||
| Post & Telecom | 1: Any marker used for purposes of survey or demarcation; e. g. in conjunction with aerial survey it may be a temporary flag or even a tethered balloon; any structure to make a point observable from a distance for surveying or navigation. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Device for tracking consignments of drugs, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Space | Downlink from a spacecraft that immediately indicates the state of the spacecraft as being one of several possible states by virtue of the presence and/or frequency of the subcarrier. See Chapter 10. (references) | ||
| Technology | See AERONAUTICAL BEACON, AIRPORT ROTATING BEACON, AIRWAY BEACON, MARKER BEACON, NONDIRECTIONAL BEACON, RADAR. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: System of visual lights marking fixed feature on ground. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Fixed navigation mark, lighted or unlighted. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: OSCAR I and II contained low-power -- that transmitted in the amateur two-metre (150-megahertz) band beacon transmitters on board spacecraft enable pinpoint tracking from earth stations. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Common Expressions: beacon
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Air traffic control radar beacon system | The Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS) is a system used in air traffic control to enhance radar monitoring and separation of air traffic. ATCRBS makes ATC radars more useful by allowing aircraft being scanned by the radar to provide information to the radar. This information is presented on controllers' radar scopes, allowing them to rapidly identify returns from aircraft (known as targets) and to distinguish legitimate targets from ground clutter. (references) | ||
| Akron Beacon Journal | The Akron Beacon Journal is a morning newspaper located in Akron, Ohio. It is the sole daily newspaper in Akron and is distributed throughout Northeast Ohio. The paper places a strong emphasis on local news and business. Industries historically tied to the area are also well-covered, such as rubber and tire production. (references) | ||
| Barr Beacon | Barr Beacon is a hill on the edge of Walsall, West Midlands, England, very near the border with Birmingham. It is the tallest point for many miles, and gives its name to nearby Great Barr. (references) | ||
| Beach to Beacon race | The Beach to Beacon race is a 10 kilometer race that begins in Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine and ends in downtown Portland, Maine. (references) | ||
| Beacon (Metro-North station) | The Beacon Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Beacon, New York via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every hour on weekdays, and about every 25 minutes during rush hour. It is 59 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour and twenty-nine minutes. It is also one of the few handicapped accessible stations on the Hudson Line, featuring wheelchair ramps, an elevator to the train platform, and a high-level platform level with the doors on the train (most stations have platforms that are lower than the train doors). (references) | ||
| Beacon Batch | Beacon Batch is the highest point in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south-western England. It lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare. The shortest route of ascent goes from the Burrington Combe car park and is approximately 1 km long. (references) | ||
| Beacon Communications | Beacon Communications, LLC is the name of an American production company, which produces motion pictures for major Hollywood studios. Armyan Bernstein is the chairman of this company, and produces the movies for the Beacon Pictures label, working with such studios as Touchstone Pictures (The Walt Disney Company), Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures (Columbia). (references) | ||
| Beacon Dodsworth | Beacon Dodsworth Ltd are a UK company specialising in geographic information system mapping software since 1994. (references) | ||
| Beacon fire | 1: A signal fire. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Beacon FM | Beacon Radio is the name of a commercial radio station in the Midlands of England, previously known as Beacon FM, previously known as Beacon Radio 303. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: beacon
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Aerodrome beacon | Energy | Aeronautical beacon used to indicate the location of an aerodrome from the air. (references) | |
| Aeronautical beacon | Energy | A visual Navigation Aid (NAVAID) displaying flashes of white and/or colored light to indicate the location of an airport, a heliport, a landmark, a certain point of a federal airway in mountainous terrain, or an obstruction. (references) | |
| Aeronautical beacon | Post & Telecom | An aeronautical ground light visible at all azimuths, either continuously or intermittently, to designate a particular point on the surface of the earth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Aeronautical beacon | Technology | A visual NAVAID displaying flashes of white and/or colored light to indicate the location of an airport, a heliport, a landmark, a certain point of a Federal airway in mountainous terrain, or an obstruction. See AIRPORT ROTATING BEACON. (references) | |
| Aeronautical radar beacon | Post & Telecom | A receiving and transmitting device operating at a fixed location for the purpose of aeronautical radionavigation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Airport rotating beacon | Technology | A visual NAVAID operated at many airports. At civil airports, alternating white and green flashes indicate the location of the airport. At military airports, the beacons flash alternately white and green, but are differentiated from civil beacons by dualpeaked (two quick) white flashes between the green flashes. See INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULES, SPECIAL VFR OPERATIONS, ICAO term AERODROME BEACON. (references) | |
| Airway beacon | Technology | Used to mark airway segments in remote mountain areas. The light flashes Morse Code to identify the beacon site. (references) | |
| Beacon delay | Aerospace | The amount of inherent delay within a beacon, i.e., the time between the arrival of a signal and the response of the beacon. (references) | |
| Beacon skipping | Aerospace | A condition where transponder return pulses from a beacon are missing at the interrogating radar. Beacon skipping can be caused by interference, overinterrogation of beacon, antenna nulls, or pattern minimums. (references) | |
| Beacon stealing | Aerospace | Loss of beacon tracking by one radar due to (interfering) interrogation signals from another radar. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: beacon
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| BEACON | English | British European Airways Computer Network | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
