"NDB" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: NDBs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} NDB (plural NDBs)
  1. (aviation) Initialism of non-directional beacon, a type of radiobeacon used in air navigation which transmits an omnidirectional radio signal containing no encoded information about the direction from an aircraft to the beacon. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: non-directional beacon (extra: a type of radiobeacon used in air navigation which transmits an omnidirectional radio signal containing no encoded information about the direction from an aircraft to the beacon) Categories (topical): Aviation, Nuclear warfare Coordinate_terms (marker beacon): fan marker, FM, inner marker, IM, middle marker, MM, outer marker, OM
    Sense id: en-NDB-en-noun-4Wj4TpSb Disambiguation of Nuclear warfare: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'marker beacon': 60 40
  2. (military, nautical) Initialism of nuclear depth bomb. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: nuclear depth bomb Categories (topical): Military, Nautical, Navigation, Nuclear warfare
    Sense id: en-NDB-en-noun-O69uSEED Disambiguation of Navigation: 43 57 Disambiguation of Nuclear warfare: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 43 57 Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: navaid, depth charge Hyponyms: LOM Coordinate_terms: DME, glideslope, IGS, ILS, localizer, localiser, MLS, TACAN, VOR, VORTAC

Inflected forms

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