The phrase "absolute beacon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that serves as a clear and guiding example or source of inspiration.
Example: "Her unwavering dedication to her work makes her an absolute beacon of excellence in our industry."
Alternatives: "shining example" or "guiding light".
In the case of Ramona Jones, for instance, who works in the human resources department of a county council - somewhere that should be an absolute beacon in this respect - a once very promising career has been railroaded by pregnancy.
"We were here during the era of apartheid and this school was an absolute beacon of what was to come," former student Amanda West, a last-minute replacement for Tutu as guest speaker after he withdrew due to illness, told a gathering of alumni, donors and teachers past and present.
In this paper, we have proposed a low-cost self-localization method which uses 4 elements of microphones, wheel rotation and sound sources as beacons, whose absolute location and frequency bands are known.
The key idea in obtaining reliable values of absolute position and orientation of beacons is to first calibrate one of the rovers, using the remaining ones as reference points and then allow the whole group to move together and calibrate all the rovers in-motion.
Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from three beacons which have their own absolute position information.
A key contribution of this paper is to show that despite the fact that the beacon locations are not known (in terms of absolute coordinates), they significantly improve the performance of the system.
The range free methods usually use connectivity information to identify the beacon nodes within radio range and then estimate the absolute position of non-beacon nodes [32].
Two uniplex molecular beacon-based real-time assays were carried out in triplicate for absolute quantification of CCR5 copies and HIV-1 STS DNA copies in clinical samples, as described above for the standards.
Compared to the navigation scheme based on the absolute measurements of pulsars, the error sources such as planetary ephemeris error, pulsar parameter uncertainties, and radio beacon position deviations, are correspondingly reduced or eliminated.
Candidate Obama, the constitutional law professor from Harvard who was held up as the beacon for liberal Democrats after eight years of conservative Republican rule in the White House, extolled the absolute need to shut down Gitmo on the trail.
