LORAN Definition & Meaning

loran

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[ lawr-an, lohr- ]

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noun

a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.

loran

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noun

a radio navigation system operating over long distances. Synchronized pulses are transmitted from widely spaced radio stations to aircraft or shipping, the time of arrival of the pulses being used to determine position

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A long-range navigational system, in which a receiver's position is determined by an analysis involving the time intervals between pulsed radio signals from two or more pairs of ground stations of known position. The difference in the timing of the received signals corresponds to differences in distance from the transmitters, and the position of the receiver can be calculated by triangulation .
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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of loran¹

1940–45, Americanism; lo(ng) ra(nge) n(avigation)

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of loran¹

C20: lo ( ng- ) ra ( nge ) n ( avigation )

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Forensic officers were examining the home on Loran Avenue on Thursday afternoon and into the evening.

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“Recognition, like money, like power, is not evenly distributed,” said Loran Nordgren, a management professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Much credit is due to her stage designer, Mirjam Stängl, and her ingenious set, a succession of folding panels that expand and contract over the width of the stage like a fan, and Marcus Loran for his hallucinatory lighting design.

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But Loran Kelly, the co-founder of Polymer80, called the concerns over ghost guns a "myth," and a "divisive non-issue".

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Translated as “Tribute to the Old Guard,” this cut is a slinky reimagining of Idris Muhammad’s 1974 jazz-funk classic “Loran’s Dance,” a record that was part of my own initiation as a jazz fan.

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