radar beacon

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   a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position

   Synonymsracon

   Broaderelectronic signal

Questions about radar beacon

What does radar beacon mean?

radar beacon means "a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position".

What is another word for radar beacon?

Close synonyms include racon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radar beacon a common word?

radar beacon 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.