0 a light or fire on the top of a hill that acts as a warning or signal:
1 a light that acts as a signal or warning:
fig. a beacon of hope
a radar/navigation beacon
The spacecraft sends a beacon signal to the ground indicating how urgent it is to track the spacecraft for telemetry.
One explanation for this finding could be related to the sequence characteristics of the molecular beacons and adjacent primers.
The alternate nucleotide was positioned in the middle of the loop sequence of the beacons.
Moreover, the strength of this technique lies in the determination of the most likely beacon location based on the measurements and supporting statistical information.
Lighting of the alabaster curtain wall so that at night it would light the church interior and act as a beacon to the community outside.
The buildings (there are two exactly similar) take ambiguity and abstraction further in an attempt to create simple beacons of beauty in a chaotic landscape.
New-style education appeared as a seemingly universal beacon of hope, particularly when it was meant to convey a reworked but "traditionally" inspired notion of morality.
The speaker does not yearn for heavenly light, but a humble "beacon" of human manufacture.
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