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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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air traffic service

Aviation; Aeronautics

A generic term meaning flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, and air traffic control service, including area control service, approach ...

DME fix

Aviation; Aeronautics

A geographic location determined by reference to a navigational aid which provides distance and azimuth information. The direction of a DME fix is specified in degrees magnetic ...

fix

Aviation; Aeronautics

A geographical position determined by visual references to the surface, by reference to one or more radio navaids, by celestial plotting, or by other navigational methods.

glow-discharge tube

Aviation; Aeronautics

A glass electron tube containing a gas under a low pressure. A high voltage across two electrodes in the tube ionizes the gas, and when electrons flow through the ionized gas, it ...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Aviation; Aeronautics

A governmental board whose responsibility is the regulation of all interstate electrical communications and all foreign electrical communications that originate in the United ...

taper

Aviation; Aeronautics

A gradual change in the width or thickness of an object along its length.

compass rose

Aviation; Aeronautics

A graduated circle painted on a ramp or taxiway of an airport. Compass roses are laid out at a location where local magnetic fields are minimum, and where traffic will not ...