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OLS

OLS is the abbreviation of optical landing system.

OLS is the abbreviation of ordinary least squares.

Meaning of optical landing system

Noun

optical landing system (plural optical landing systems)

  1. A system used to give glide path information to pilots when landing on an aircraft carrier.
    Synonyms:
    OLS, meatball

Noun capitalized: OLs

OLs

  1. (plural) plural of OL

Synonyms of OLS

Forms of OLS

pluralOLSs

Questions about OLS

What is OLS the abbreviation of?
OLS is the abbreviation of optical landing system.
What part of speech is OLS?
OLS is a noun.
What is the plural of OLS?
The plural of OLS is OLSs.

Words near OLS in the dictionary

  1. olpiid
  2. olpiids
  3. olprinone
  4. OLR
  5. OLRs
  6. OLS
  7. olsacherite
  8. olsalazine
  9. Olsen
  10. Olsen's alligator
  11. Olsen's alligators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OLS (page history and authors); OLs (page history and authors); optical landing system (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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