air-traffic control

air-traffic control
air-traffic controller.
/air"traf'ik/
a government service that facilitates the safe and orderly movement of aircraft within and between airports by receiving and processing data from radar and devices that monitor local weather conditions and by maintaining radio contact with pilots.
[1930-35]

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      the supervision of the movements of all aircraft, both in the air and on the ground, in the vicinity of an airport. See traffic control.

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Universalium. 2010.

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