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light beacon

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light beacon [′līt ‚bē·kən]
(navigation)
A beacon from which a light is displayed for directing ships.


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The council on Monday instructed city workers to install pedestrian-activated flashing light beacons and put in additional signs reminding drivers to yield to pedestrians, and also asked police to step up enforcement of the area.
School buses in some states are required to use a white light beacon when dropping off and picking up passengers.
Byline: Alastair Down says Denman's success made it a day to live long in the memory A COUPLE of hundred years ago they used to light beacons on the hilltops to send truly momentous news across the country, and if that practice still held then the dark of a December night would have been lit from one end of the land to the other yesterday after Denman put his Hennessy field to the sword with a performance that melded the magnificent with the merciless.
 
 
 
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