localizern.
/ˈləʊkəlʌɪzə/, /ˈləʊkl̩ʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈloʊkəˌlaɪzər/ 1. A person who or thing which localizes something (in various senses of the verb).In quot. 1872: a local news reporter.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > assignment or attribution to particular place > one who
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > ascertaining or determining position of anything > one who or that which
plotter1593
localizer1839
locater1897
locator1904
1839 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 24 169 If the cranium of the beaver contradicts the pretended seat of destructiveness, it gives a formal contradiction likewise to the localizers of the faculty of constructiveness.
1872 Newton Kansan 22 Aug. 3/1 This quiet season..furnishes poor food for localizers.
1889 Cent. Dict. Localizer, a small coil of definite resistance placed at each station of an electric fire-alarm system, which is brought into the circuit when the alarm is given, thus enabling the observer at the receiving-station to know the locality from which the alarm is sent.
1936 Times 3 Dec. 16/3 High power X-ray tubes are becoming smaller, and another development is the localizer which enables the physician to be certain that the patient is receiving treatment at the exact spot.
1956 Boys' Life Aug. 23/2 (advt.) Two localizers for conserving fuel are included.
2013 M. A. Jiménez-Crespo Transl. & Web Localization iii. 164 Nowadays, web localization is normally performed by localizers using translation technology.
2. Aeronautics. A device for transmitting a radio beam along a runway, which an incoming aircraft can use to guide its approach; also localizer beam. Also: an instrument in an aircraft that shows its position relative to such a beam.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > radio beam or beacon
beacon1919
localizer1922
beam1927
landing beam1929
marker beacon1929
fan marker1948
1922 Aerial Age Weekly 26 June 379/2 The localizer is a device for transmitting radio signals more or less vertically, so as to form an electro-magnetic field over the landing field.
1945 Aeronautics Feb. 29/3 The equipment linked up as a whole is then designed to guide the aircraft steadily along a localiser beam to keep it in dead line with the centre of the runway.
1965 Sun 28 Oct. 8/5 As the plane approaches London Airport it fixes on a ‘localiser’ beam which brings it into line with the runway.
2004 C. Lee Aloft xi. 328 I check my airspeed, my altitude, my localizer, my glide slope, every indicator a go and I take us in.
2007 Flying Sept. 11/2 The controller told me to speed up, intercept the localizer to Runway 16.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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