What is "locator"

Usage examples of "locator".

The locator listed Baler as being assigned to the Shore-Based Intermediate Maintenance Activity, or SIMA, at Mayport, Florida.

The biologist, the geologist and the physician prepared a reconnaissance robot, the mechanics adjusted the landing locators and searchlights and got ready a rocket satellite that would transmit a message to Earth.

Cameron watched the ponderous labor of the Worms, and was inclined to disbelieve what Lael and Rabi had said, but that inclination disappeared only half an hour later when they returned to their cart and found it covered with white powder, the locator still beeping merrily away.

There had been an embarrassed silence on the line for a long moment, and then Farnsworth somewhat sheepishly admitted that he had ordered the Roanoke surveillance squad to put a locator device on her car.

They had put a camouflage net over the truck and over the locator and over the bulge of the Bofors mounted beside it.

She took down the tag number then relayed this to Rhyme, who said he would in turn put out another vehicle locator request, in addition to the one on the Honda, and tell the Port Authority police to pass the word to the toll takers at the bridges and tunnels, on the assumption that the immigrants were headed for Chinatown in Manhattan.

Though Zoster was the only one armed, the trio of scabs boldly led their little expedition through a tangle of feral trails, much-aided by their satellite surveillance maps and GPS locators.

Flipping through the locator sheet on the desk, Viv signed herself out.

Of course the real purpose of the locators was to make it easier for the Templars to keep track of the two exiles at all times.

As part of field training, we were assigned to functions such as weather observation, local Guard duplicator offices, and to Domestic Affairs, with a longer stint in the Locator section.

Margo had desperately wanted to master her log and ATLS-Absolute Time Locator System-with greater skill, and that meant plowing through mathematics.

The familiar locator stars, the bright blue supergiants used by every species as markers, had been subtly moved in their relative positions.

Now, he called for the locator to join them, and in the light of electric torch-beams they picked out the rough-hewn features of a towering edifice.

I didn't want to fore or back-time because it would show on the locator console if I was being monitored.

His heartward fist, Aille noted, the one whose wrist was banded by the locator.