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SELCALs

SELCALs is the plural of SELCAL.

SELCALs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of SELCAL.

Meaning of SELCAL

Noun

SELCAL (countable and uncountable, plural SELCALs)

  1. A system for alerting a specific aircraft that a radio station on the ground wishes to communicate with them, via transmitting an aircraft-specific sequence of audio tones over the aircraft's company radio frequency to an automatic decoder on board the aircraft.
  2. (countable) An alert sent via this system.
    • Duncan awoke to Li Quan's nudging. “What is a sell call?” Duncan's brain needed a moment to come online; sell call didn't make sense. Then he made the connection. A SELCAL was coming through. He jerked the headset off Li Quan's head, donning it in time to hear the words “hundred Chinese aboard your...2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 32, in Wrongful Act, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2024

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Noun capitalized: SelCals

SelCals

  1. (plural) plural of SelCal

Verb capitalized: SelCals

SelCals

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of SelCal

Questions about SELCALs

What is SELCALs the plural of?
SELCALs is the plural of SELCAL.
What part of speech is SELCALs?
SELCALs can be a noun or a verb.

Words near SELCALs in the dictionary

  1. Selbys
  2. selca
  3. SELCAL
  4. SELCALed
  5. SELCALing
  6. SELCALs
  7. selcas
  8. selcouth
  9. selcouthly
  10. Selcuk
  11. seld

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