Meacon (noun)
mee-kon
(historical) A radio beacon used by the Royal Air Force in the Second World War (1939–45) to intercept and redirect enemy navigational signals.
1940s; earliest use found in Winston Churchill. From m- + (b)-eacon.
Example sentences
“The meacons altered them in time.”
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