WordNet
omnidirectional range
n. a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing [syn: omnirange, omnidirectional radio range]
Usage examples of "omnidirectional range".
Even the best sensors had an omnidirectional range of little more than seventy-two light-minutes against something as small as a starship's drive field, and given that their entry warp point had been a closed one five light-hours from the primary, no one could even have known where it was in order to keep a sensor watch on it.