localizer
- a word derived from localize.
Example Sentences
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The intensity of activity in response to the localizer tests was idiosyncratic; some brains worked harder than others.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
Another beam comes from the localizer, another beacon at the airport.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2016
The crew managed to restart three of the engines, then pulled off a nighttime, non-precision localizer approach into Jakarta even though visibility through the windscreen was almost nil.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2010
One instrument, the "localizer," guides the plane toward the middle of the runway; another, the "glide path," controls its descent.
From Time Magazine Archive
He rushed to his desk and took out his flash pistol, quickly set the localizer so as to cover a large area.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry
