air-traffic control center
air-traffic control center
[′er ¦traf·ik kən′trōl ‚sen·tər] (navigation)
A place for receiving information regarding aircraft movement, interpreting this information, and issuing instructions to aircraft to promote safe, orderly, expeditious flow of traffic; it directs traffic along controlled airspace.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.