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pilot, person responsible for safe navigation of a ship or airplane. A ship's pilot is an individual possessing local knowledge of coastal waters. Usually licensed by public authority (in the United States, by the U.S. Coast Guard), he is taken on board to conduct a ship to or from port. The airplane pilot, in contrast to the ship's pilot, has overall command of the craft, which is operated, generally, with the assistance of a copilot. Before an airplane pilot can be licensed in the United States, he must clock a prescribed amount of solo flying experience and pass a series of tests given by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

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PILOT

(1) (Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching) A high-level programming language used to generate question-and-answer courseware. A version that incorporated turtle graphics ran on Atari computers.

(2) (Pilot Software, Cambridge, MA, www.pilotsoftware.com) A corporate provider of business analytics solutions whose technologies included PilotWorks Suite, a business intelligence product with more than 15 years of development, and Pilot Hit List, which is software for Web site reporting and analysis. In early 2007, Hit List was acquired by Web analytics company Marketwave, and shortly thereafter, Pilot itself was acquired by SAP.

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pilot

1. 

a. a person who is qualified to operate an aircraft or spacecraft in flight

b. (as modifier): pilot error

2. 

a. a person who is qualified to steer or guide a ship into or out of a port, river mouth, etc.

b. (as modifier): a pilot ship

3. a person who steers a ship

4. Machinery a guide, often consisting of a tongue or dowel, used to assist in joining two mating parts together

5. Machinery a plug gauge for measuring an internal diameter

6. Films a colour test strip accompanying black-and-white rushes from colour originals

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pilot [′pī·lət]

(aerospace engineering)

A person who handles the controls of an aircraft or spacecraft from within the craft, and guides or controls the craft in flight.

A mechanical system designed to exercise control functions in an aircraft or spacecraft.

(communications)

In a transmission system, a signal wave, usually single frequency, transmitted over the system to indicate or control its characteristics.

Instructions, in tape relay, appearing in routing line, relative to the transmission or handling of that message.

(computer science)

A model of a computer system designed to test its design, logic, and data flow under operating conditions.

(design engineering)

A bullet-nosed cylindrical component used in a die that enters prepunched holes of a metal strip advancing through a series of operations to assure precise registration at each station.

(mechanical engineering)

A cylindrical steel bar extending through, and about 8 inches (20 centimeters) beyond the face of, a reaming bit; it acts as a guide that follows the original unreamed part of the borehole and hence forces the reaming bit to follow, and be concentric with, the smaller-diameter, unreamed portion of the original borehole.

(navigation)

A person who directs the movements of a vessel through pilot waters, usually a person who has demonstrated extensive knowledge of channels, aids to navigation, dangers to navigation, and so on, in a particular area and is licensed for that area.

A book of sailing directions; for waters of the United States and its possessions, the books are prepared by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and are called coast pilots.

The person who flies aircraft.

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PILOT [′pī·lət]

(computer science)

A programming language designed for applications to computer-aided instruction and the question-and-answer type of interaction that occurs in that environment.

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Pilot,

the Mr. Gray successfully carries out many assignments for the rebels and thwarts the British [Am. Lit.: Cooper The Pilot]

See : Rebellion

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PILOT - Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching. CAI language, many versions. "Guide to 8080 PILOT", J. Starkweather, Dr Dobb's J (Apr 1977).