control tower

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   a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport

   Broadertower

   Part ofairport

Questions about control tower

What does control tower mean?

control tower means "a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport".

Is control tower a common word?

control tower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.