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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
on-board
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
▪ An on-board computer would constantly monitor approaching obstacles.
▪ It also serves as an on-board computer to monitor a variety of automotive functions.
▪ The propellant flow rates were controllable either manually or via the on-board computer system.
▪ Automatically, Vologsky completed his pre-flight check, finishing with a pre-programmed check-test on the on-board computer.
▪ The chronometer confirmed his flying time since the aerial refuelling over Omsk, tallying with the covered distance on the on-board computer.
▪ The re-entry path was flown automatically by the on-board computer using the command module's thrusters to steer.
▪ The on-board computer gives you a cross hair sight which automatically tracks the target when in range.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An on-board computer would constantly monitor approaching obstacles.
▪ Here the Doctor uses the on-board laboratory to make a non-functioning facsimile of the Tarranium Core.
▪ In the seat pocket was a route guide that listed on-board entertainment and points of interest along the way.
▪ It also serves as an on-board computer to monitor a variety of automotive functions.
▪ Manufactured by Austin House, these little gizmos are designed to help adjust on-board air pressure to the eardrums.
▪ The cells will drive electric motors and use on-board hydrogen gas as fuel.
▪ The promised on-board processing did not exist, however.
▪ Working on a tight budget, we opted for more on-board memory at the expense of a large capacity harddisk.
Wikipedia
On-board

On-board may refer to:

  • On Board (film), a 1998 Turkish film directed by Serdar Akar
  • Onboarding, the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders
  • On-Board Diagnostics
  • On-Board Data Handling

Usage examples of "on-board".

There was a momentary pause, then: "According to the transmission, we're supposed to pick up the Canusian ambassador for on-board Alliance affiliation negotiations with Canus Four.

Later, back on earth, Orlov was told the on-board echocardiograph had showed that his cardiovascular activity slowed and remained down after his rest.

Most sonar scanning was done visually-the on-board computers converted acoustical signals into a display on TV type tubes that looked most of all like some sort of arcade game.

The Ibis could not afford the extra weight of an on-board computer and an automatic pilot.

My on-board damage assessment center reports serious injury to my reactor coolant system.

The helicopter's on-board data link also transmitted a test message to the frigate.

Caliban powered up his on-board infrared light source and found his way forward that way.

The command van was crowded now, with a dozen technicians tracking force movements, maintaining contact with the diverse elements of the assault force, and processing intelligence information as quickly as it could be assembled and filtered through the on-board tactical computer.

They moastly broke down when thi towr got thi kaos & a lot ov thi 1s that didn had 2 b deactivatid, but sum ov them stil run on thare own on-board computers, whitch rnt very clevir but let them moov & do stuf.

Seven of my on-board chronographs are either damaged or nonoperative, but on checking the eighth I am shocked to discover that I have been deactivated only a few hours.

JUST BEFORE VOYAGER 2 was to encounter the Uranus system, the mission design had specified a final maneuver, a brief firing of the on-board propulsion system to position the spacecraft correctly so it could thread its way on a preset path among the hurtling moons.

Clarissa had warned that it might happen without an experienced copilot-navigator to calibrate the on-board reference system to the shifting satellite pattern as the flyer descended.

Finally, an cation of other black box assembled all the data, the lo airplane the sources of thermal radiation, and its probable cause, and caused the on-board printing device to print a map on which was located the location of the airerafi and the sources of the radiation There were little symbols identifying the .

If he tried to use his on-board computers to thread the needle through the tangle of enemy and friendly planes in front of him, the processing circuits, or the Sidewinder's own sensors, would overload and cause the missiles to detonate prematurely.

Its on-board programming was designed to trace thermal receptors over the entire visible horizon, interrogating everything in sight and locking on any signature that fit its acquisition parameters.