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rotating beacon
noun
A rotating location light installed at an airport, allowing the type of airport to be determined by the color and speed of the rotation.
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Measurement of distance is based on detecting linear velocity of a vertical slit laser beam from a rotating beacon that projected on the photodiode array mounted in round belt shape installed on a robot.
It also had the dual function as lighthouse with a rotating beacon fuelled by oil from 1818.
This interaction leads to emission "in the pattern of a rotating beacon," as emission escapes along the magnetic poles of the neutron star.
Neufeld recalled that when the film crew entered the unit, rotating beacon lights came on alerting employees that visitors were in the vicinity.
The "rotating beacon" property of pulsars arises from the misalignment of their magnetic poles with their rotational poles.
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Their radio emission is concentrated along a narrow cone, producing a series of pulses corresponding to the rotation of the neutron star, much like the beacon from a rotating lighthouse lamp.
The specialty lights included 54 two-light Molefays, six PAR 36 rotating beacons, 24 Martin Atomic 300 Strobes, 2 six-light Molefays, and 10 four-light Molefays.
Rotating light beacons mark airports at night and during periods of low visibility.
"Beyond kilometres of roofs, past rotating church-beacons, were the power stations," writes Miéville in the first chapter, signaling but not explaining the unusual technology.
Both engines were running, and the plane's red rotating anti-collision beacon was on (standard operation for aircraft in flight).
(3) The intent to conduct rocket-launching operations in the area shall also be indicated by visual signals consisting of a large orange-colored "blimp-shaped" balloon by day and a rotating alternately red and white beacon by night.
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