单词 | teleguidance |
释义 | teleguidancen. Now rare. The action or practice of remotely controlling or directing a machine or device, esp. a missile; (also) the branch of science and technology concerned with this. Also figurative: the exercise of indirect control over something from a distance. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > aim or aiming > controlling from a distance teleguidance1954 teleguiding1965 1954 John o' London's Weekly 12 Feb. 154/3 The French have shortened ‘long distance radio control’ to ‘teleguidance’. 1965 K. Armah Africa's Golden Road vii. 155 China and America..will inevitably replace physical presence with teleguidance. 1977 N. Freeling Gadget v. 218 He's been thinking all day about teleguidance systems. 2013 C. Turner tr. A. Colonomos Gamble War iv. 125 Thanks to tele-guidance, the objectives were then pinpointed and often struck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1954 |
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