meaconn.

Brit.

/ˈmiːk(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˈmikən/

Forms: 1900s– Meacon, 1900s– meacon.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mask v.⁴, masking adj.², beacon n.

Etymology: < m- (in mask v.⁴ or masking adj.²) + -eacon (in beacon n.).

Military. Now historical.

A radio beacon used by the Royal Air Force in the Second World War (1939–45) to intercept and redirect enemy navigational signals.

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1949 W. S. Churchill Second World War II. 339 For some time the German bombers had navigated largely by radio beacons... To counter this we..installed..‘Meacons’. These picked up the German signals, amplified them, and sent them out again from..England.

1999 Western Morning News (Electronic ed.) 5 Jan. I believe the incident occurred at 22.40 hours on November 24 1940... The crew was trying to establish its position, having become victims of ‘Meacon’, a device in use at that time for jamming enemy beacons.

1999 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 16 Nov. The Germans introduced X-Verfahren directional beams from France. These were countered by masking beacons—meacons—which received the enemy signal at one station and retransmitted it from another several miles away, confusing German navigators.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meacon
释义	meaconn. Brit. /ˈmiːk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈmikən/ Forms: 1900s– Meacon, 1900s– meacon. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mask v.⁴, masking adj.², beacon n. Etymology: < m- (in mask v.⁴ or masking adj.²) + -eacon (in beacon n.). Military. Now historical. A radio beacon used by the Royal Air Force in the Second World War (1939–45) to intercept and redirect enemy navigational signals. ΚΠ 1949 W. S. Churchill Second World War II. 339 For some time the German bombers had navigated largely by radio beacons... To counter this we..installed..‘Meacons’. These picked up the German signals, amplified them, and sent them out again from..England. 1999 Western Morning News (Electronic ed.) 5 Jan. I believe the incident occurred at 22.40 hours on November 24 1940... The crew was trying to establish its position, having become victims of ‘Meacon’, a device in use at that time for jamming enemy beacons. 1999 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 16 Nov. The Germans introduced X-Verfahren directional beams from France. These were countered by masking beacons—meacons—which received the enemy signal at one station and retransmitted it from another several miles away, confusing German navigators. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949
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