The word 'beacons' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this word to refer to a signal fire or an electronic transmitter used as a navigational aid. For example, you could say "The beacons were lit to guide the ships safely back to shore."
"We're making decisions based on this direction: it's one of our navigational beacons," says Libin. "One of the nice things about having the 100-year startup as one of those beacons is it gives us the conceptual freedom to be like: 'We've got 98 more years, so what could we do in maybe 50 years from now?'".
This is how I wind up on a train tootling through Wales to a B&B in the Brecon Beacons.
You sensed she wasn't sure about his credentials because the pina coladas flushed up her cheeks like beacons at sunset and her mother had to prop her up all the way to the groom.
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Takeaways and fast food joints are often conveniently placed as you're driving from one place to another – their bright signs like beacons signalling ease and convenience.
They will move slowly, at 70cm a minute, with the position of one bed determining that of the other, controlled by a range of navigational systems including radio beacons in the gallery ceiling, and a laser which sweeps the gallery floor to detect obstacles.
However, after watching a dazzling pyrotechnic and son et lumière, which enveloped the palace, she lit the national beacon in the Mall, the last of more than 4,200 jubilee beacons criss-crossing the UK and the world, drawing the day of celebrations to a close.
They remain too distant even to serve as beacons to steer by.Although the extreme-poverty rate in Africa has fallen from an estimated 46% in 1999 to 41% in 2004, that is still way off the 2015 target of 22%.
In America radio-navigation and air-traffic-control systems based on terrestrial beacons, which predate GPS, were supposed to be phased out by 2018 in favour of satellite-based alternatives, under a modernisation programme called NextGen, overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration FAAA).
By picking up and analysing the signals from these beacons, the receiver can determine its position.
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