Sentences with phrase «navigation beacon»

A navigation beacon is a device or structure that helps people or vehicles find their way. It emits signals or lights that serve as guides to navigate specific routes or locations, similar to a signpost or lighthouse. Full definition
Since each pulsar has its own distinct pattern of flashes and its own period, they could indeed be used one day as interstellar navigation beacons.
Therefore, our approach is to pursue timely change — policies based on long - term consideration of Singapore's future, while preserving timeless constants — values that provide navigation beacons in the turbulence of change.
I just want to clarify a few things with regards to A-FRAME, The site was named after a wooden tripod navigation beacon which has since been removed, also it's not a simple sandy shore entry, it has quite a long grass embankment and then some tricky rocks you have to negotiate before entering the water.
The element has been used to power space satellites and navigation beacons.
The Federal Aviation Administration also received 3.67 acres for a navigation beacon.
Yet the Russians have discovered that many of their unattended RTG generators have vanished, sometimes to turn up in the hands of the unwitting, such as the two hunters who used a navigation beacon power source to warm themselves in the dead of winter, having stripped off everything but the radioactive source from the unit in question.
However, the property was close to Mayfield Stack, a navigation beacon where planes were stacked during busy periods at Gatwick Airport.
Nonetheless the judge held that the absence of an express prohibition on the use of the navigation beacon was not to be taken as the landowner having given implied permission for the schoolboy to use the beacon.
There had been no express warning sign prohibiting the use of the navigation beacon.
In Baldacchino v West Wittering Estate plc [2008] EWHC 3386 HHJ Stuart Baker sitting in the High Court dismissed the claim of a schoolboy, who had sustained a neck injury when he dived into the sea from the defendant's navigation beacon.
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