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US
/tɹænˈspɑndɝ/
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[ UK /tɹænspˈɒndɐ/ ]
[ UK /tɹænspˈɒndɐ/ ]
NOUN
- electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply
How To Use transponder In A Sentence
- Similarly, when the starter button is pressed, along with the clutch pedal, the system recognises the transponder signal, releases the engine immobiliser and the steering lock, and the engine starts.
- An unidentified pilot could be no more than a private aviator who unknowingly sends out a wrong signal on his transponder.
- Radar is the vital part of the IFF system, interrogating unit-based transponders and reading responses.
- It will also be ensured that transponders, which signal the plane's whereabouts, cannot be turned off as they were in the planes that were hijacked.
- This is used to reprogram a blank 'key', essentially a piece of plastic with a transponder inside. Times, Sunday Times
- Looking at the footprint of the conus transponders, it is likely that the signal for some or all transponders will much more focused. Dish Network USA Viability in Mexico
- Cotton says the radar used by air-traffic controllers reads signals emitted by transponders in the airplanes themselves.
- All the driver has to do to unlock the car is to pull the door handle, the system already having recognised the signal from the transponder signal.
- Jitter is one of the biggest concerns for designers of optical networks, which include optical components such as transmitters, receivers, and transponders.
- Militaries that can not afford communications satellites of their own can lease transponders on the satellites orbited by other countries, and some - like Australia - have already done so.