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control tower en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. An airport building from which the air traffic control unit monitors and directs the movement of aircraft on and around the airport.
   • As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways—No. 13 or No. 18. 1947 June 9, “National Affairs: Holocaust at LaGuardia”, in Time:
2. An enclosed, raised structure occupied by one or more persons who operate or exercise control over railway traffic, ship movement, a racetrack, machinery, etc.
   • Ned Newton stood beside Tom in the control tower of the great tank as she started on her homeward way. 1918, Victor Appleton, chapter 12, in Tom Swift And His War Tank:
   • In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York. 1941 November 17, “Catastrophe: Crash at Dunkirk”, in Time:
   • From the control tower high above the sprawling container port here, Danny Law helps manage the relentless loading and unloading of cargo, day and night. 2006 January 29, Thomas Fuller, “China trade unbalances shipping”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:
   • The hump cabin and its relay room are at the summit of the hump on the right-hand side, and the control tower is on the centre line of the yard between the primary and secondary retarders. 1959 July 14, “Temple Mills Marshalling Yard”, in Railway Magazine, page 492:

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ga túr rialaithe (airport control tower) · hi नियंत्रण टॉवर (airport control tower) · sv kontrolltorn (airport control tower) · es torre de control (airport control tower) · da kontroltårn (airport control tower) · th หอควบคุมการบิน (airport control tower) · sh контролни торањ (airport control tower) · sl nadzorni stolp (airport control tower) · fr tour de contrôle (airport control tower) · nl verkeerstoren (airport control tower) · hy վերահսկողության աշտարակ (airport control tower) · id menara pengawas (airport control tower) · ur نگراں مینار (airport control tower) · nl controletoren (airport control tower) · ms menara kawalan (airport control tower) · et lennujuhtimistorn (airport control tower) · lv vadības tornis (airport control tower) · lt kontrolės bokštas (airport control tower) · ka აეროდრომული სადისპეჩერო პუნქტი (airport control tower) · nn kontrolltårn (airport control tower) · sh kontrolni toranj (airport control tower) · pt torre de controle (airport control tower) · cs řídicí věž (airport control tower) · cmn 塔臺 /塔台 (airport control tower) · is flugturn (airport control tower) · ro turn de control (airport control tower) · ru кома́ндно-диспе́тчерский пу́нкт (airport control tower) · de Kontrollturm (airport control tower) · ar بُرْج مُرَاقَبَة (airport control tower) · fa برج مراقبت (airport control tower) · pl wieża kontroli lotów (airport control tower) · pt torre de controlo (airport control tower) · sk riadiaca veža (airport control tower) · th หอควบคุม (airport control tower) · he מגדל פיקוח (airport control tower) · it torre di controllo (airport control tower) · nb kontrolltårn (airport control tower) · ko 관제탑 (airport control tower) · hu irányítótorony (airport control tower) · cmn 調度台 (airport control tower) · ja 管制塔 (airport control tower) · bg контролна кула (airport control tower) · el πύργος ελέγχου (airport control tower) · cmn 控制塔 (airport control tower) · uk кома́ндно-диспе́тчерський пу́нкт (airport control tower) · cmn 指揮塔 /指挥塔 (airport control tower) · fi lennonjohtotorni (airport control tower) · ca torre de control (airport control tower) · tr kontrol kulesi (airport control tower) · ga túr rialúcháin (airport control tower) · gl torre de control (airport control tower) · de Tower (airport control tower)