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transponder

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1945, from trans(mit) + (res)pond + agent noun suffix -er (1).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In telecommunication , a transponder is one of two types of devices. In air navigation or radio frequency identification, a flight transponder is a device that emits an identifying signal in response to an interrogating received signal. In a communications ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A radio or radar transceiver that transmits some signal in response to receive a predetermined signal.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A malfunctioning transponder would leave dots on the radar tape, not a streak, according to the manual, Schulze said. ▪ Alvin is recovered first, and then the ship is brought into position to pick up the transponder . ▪ I'd just ...

Usage examples of transponder.

Earlier, NSA had succeeded in intercepting a weak beacon transponder signal transmitted from a small spiral antenna on the tail of the Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missile.

There were pea-sized transponders buried every thousand meters of the winding route between where Luna was being built and the Waterworks, which was up nearer to the north pole.

He ran into a north-south transponder road, and followed it up a short rise to the southern rim of Melas Chasma, and got out of the rover to have a proper look.

Whatever they transmitted would go to transponder 21 on the satellite, then instantly by downlink to New York to be rerecorded.

Half the pirates and three-quarters of the privateers roaming Silesian space were probably running on faked transponder IDs.

Comsat kept track of Cerberus personnel when they were away from the redoubt through telemetric signals relayed by subcutaneous transponders.

The transponder beeped softly, lights flickering briefly in the heads-up display, and Cerise gave a sigh of relief.

However, while the forcefield is able to keep out the relatively passive signals generated by bioreadings and combadges, it cannot deter the more active signals of the artifact or the transponder.

Robinette came up on the assigned frequency, contacted Baghdad, and switched her commercial IFF transponder to the assigned squawk.

And, as Komulakov had planned, the GPS transponder in the little encryption device provided the exact location of the QRF every time Coombs communicated.

Their radars are set up to receive coded signals from aircraft transponders, not pick up skin paints.

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But if Cabell had discovered how it worked, the source of its power remained a mystery-one he hoped to solve by analyzing the transponder.

The color change flowed through the formation in a cascade, one LAC squadron at a time as each of them brought its transponders online.

However, in this day and age an equal priority went to its shorter neighbour, a two-way transponder for amplifying and relaying mobile phone service signals.