Definition of Ground control

1. Noun. A communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a ground-controlled approach to landing.

Generic synonyms: Communication System

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Control

ground ball
ground ball with eyes
ground bar
ground beef
ground beefs
ground beetle
ground bundles
ground cable
ground cedar
ground cherry
ground clearance
ground clearances
ground cloth
ground control (current term)
ground cover
ground crew
ground effect
ground effect machine
ground failure
ground fir
ground fire
ground floor
ground forces
ground game
ground games
ground itch

Literary usage of Ground control

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Lines actually run and marked on the ground control.—The Nebraska court,88 lays down the rule, "The intention of the proprietor of a town site, ..."

2. Bulletin by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1904)
"FURTHER CONTRIBUTED REMARKS ON ground control—Theory and Practice* By JACK SPALDING, Member Mr. VMS Rajan : The articles published recently by . ..."

3. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"See also alert. ground combat element—See Marine Air- Ground Task Force. ground control—(DOD, NATO) A system of accurate measurements used to determine the ..."

4. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"... of ballistic missile defense just a few months before the Soviet Union disappeared into the dust bin of history. IV Launch Operations, ground control ..."

5. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"Golden, 157 Iowa, 240, 138 NW 449, monuments on ground control field-notes; Koons v. Bryson, 69 Fed. 300, 16 CCA 227, and Root v. Cincinnati, 87 Iowa, 204, ..."

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