Momentary disruption

Usage examples of blip.

Corporal Hart relinquished his seat to the azimuth tracker, who promptly speared the oncoming blip with her electronic pin.

He twirled a knob, sending a bright blip representing Major Savage with the artillery racing diagonally from Astoria to Hillyer Gap, while the main force of the regiment continued up the Columbia, then turned east to the mountains, covering two legs of a triangle.

He twirled a knob, sending a bright blip representing Major Savage with the artillery racing diagonally from Astoria to Hillyer Gap while the main force of the Regiment continued up the Columbia, then turned east to the mountains, covering two legs of a triangle.

And he was less mocking about the security situation here, knowing that it had not been a computer error or a goofball or a police blip.

And, on his regular morning visit to the seismograph shack three days later, he finally found the reason for his worry: There was a blip in that lower graph line where before there had been none.

Ahead, beginning its swing around Barbas, was a Naxid heavy squadron, featuring a suspiciously large blip that Sula suspected was the enemy flagshipMajesty of the Praxis .

The separation between the blips closed to a few millimetres, then to a hairsbreadth spacing which seemed to endure for an eternity.

Centering the targeting pipper on his tactical screen over one of the blips marking an enemy aircraft, he acquired a lock.

Then she began maneuvering, using short bursts, as she remembered someone telling her, trying to work away from the thickest clumps of blips.

May 1952, when eagle-like Altair was flying toward the apex of the heavens, a radar watcher just south of the battle line detected a blip which had to be an airplane of some sort coming south toward the huge gasoline dump at Inchon.

I could see the barely larger blips that were the four Star-class Lothar battlewagons in their major compass-point positions.

The shuttle blinked out of Beamspace just long enough to send out a radar pulse and get the blips back, then popped back into Beamspace.

The wall facing the bed suddenly blipped to life like a projector shone on it.

It blipped, coming on, and a man in burgundy robes held his hands out in a welcoming gesture.

Janet pictured a trillion particles of an African monkey brain virus blipping about in her veins like toxic soda water bubbles.