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control towers

control towers is the plural of control tower.

Meaning of control tower

Noun

control tower (plural control towers)

  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

Questions about control towers

What is control towers the plural of?
Control towers is the plural of control tower.

Words near control towers in the dictionary

  1. control surface
  2. control surfaces
  3. control theories
  4. control theory
  5. control tower
  6. control towers
  7. control unit
  8. control units
  9. control variable
  10. control variables
  11. control verb

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