signal strip
noun
1Chiefly Military a strip of material that can be laid out on the ground in various patterns to form symbols for the purpose of communicating information to aircraft (now rare ).
2 Electronics a strip-shaped conductor or detector.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in ‘Contact’ (1893–1952) (real name Alan Bott).
- colour-keyed
- colourless
- colourlessly
- colourlessness
- colour light signal
- colour light signalling
- colour line
- colour magazine
- colourman
- colour match
- colour-matched
- colour matching
- colour melody
- colour-mixer
- colour model
- colour monitor
- colour music
- colour name
- colour-neutral
- colourologist
- colourology
- colour organ
- colour palette
- colour pan
- subsizar