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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DME Distributed Management Environment. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | = distance measuring equipment.Abbreviation. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Aircraft use DME to determine their distance from a land-based transponder by sending two pulses with a random time interval between them. The transponder echoes the pulses. The DME receiver then searches for two pulses with the correct time interval between them and measures the delay between the pulse transmission and the pulse transmission.
Once the receiver is locked on, it has a narrower window in which to look for the echoes and can retain lock. A typical DME transponder can provide concurrent distance information to about 100 aircraft.
DME frequencies are paired to VOR frequencies. So generally a DME interrogator is designed to automatically tune to the corresponding frequency when the colocated VOR is selected. DME frequencies are around 1.025 to 1.150 Ghz.
One important thing to understand is that DME provides the physical distance from the aircraft to the DME transponder. This distance is often referred to as 'slant range' and depends trigonometrically upon both the altitude above the transponder and the ground distance from it.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DME."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DME | English | Direct Machine Environment | N/A |
DME | French | Dispositif de mesure de distance | Meteorology & Standards, Transportation |
DME | German | Entfernungsmessgerät | Meteorology & Standards, Transportation |
DME | Greek | περιβάλλον κατανεμημένης διαχείρισης | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DME |
| Specialty definitions using "DME": distance measuring equipment ♦ International Computers Limited plc ♦ Kerberos ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Other important projects included the commissioning of a primary and secondary radar at the Calcutta and Chennai airports, installation of DVOR (Doppler Very high Omni Range) and DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) at airports in Srinagar, Goa, Chandigarh, Agra, Imphal, Silchar, Jamnagar, Tezpur, Pune, Jabalpur and Lilabari. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | A typical maintenance project includes improvements of airfield pavement markings and lighting; utilities and distribution systems (telephone, gas, electricity, sanitation and sewage); fire suppression systems; security equipment (luggage inspection systems, metal detectors, fencing, etc.) and navigational aids (such as beacons, VORs, DME, ILS, and precision approach path indicators - PAPI). (references) |
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| "DME" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.87% of the time. "DME" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.87% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 39.13% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DME": dme indicator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DME": dme-based, dme-compatible, dme-compliant, dme-like, dme-medium, dme-ready. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | távolságmérõ berendezés (distance measuring equipment, transmissometer). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | edmay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "DME": admeasure, admeasured, admeasurement, admeasurements, admeasures, admeasuring, admen, aidmen, amendment, amendments, badmen, beadmen, birdmen, boardmen, bombardment, bombardments, bondmen, coastguardmen, commandment, commandments, disbandment, disbandments, embedment, embedments, freedmen, goodmen, headmen, herdmen, husbandmen, impoundment, impoundments, intendment, intendments, landmen, leadmen, madmen, oddment, oddments, reedmen, rescindment, rescindments, rodmen, sandmen, seedmen, soundmen, swordmen, unfoldment, unfoldments, wadmel, wadmels, weldment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: med. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m" | |
-1 letter: de, ed, em, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m" | |
+1 letter: dame, deem, deme, demo, demy, derm, dime, dome, emyd, idem, made, mead, meed, meld, mend, mode. | |
+2 letters: adeem, admen, aimed, amend, amide, armed, bedim, dames, deems, degum, deism, demes, demit, demob, demon, demos, demur, denim, derma, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, domed, domes, dream, edema, embed, emend, emyde, emyds, famed, fremd, fumed, gamed, homed, imbed, imide, imped, lamed, limed, maced, madre, maned, mated, mawed, mayed, mazed, meads, medal, media, medic, medii, meeds, melds, menad, mends, merde, meted, mewed, midge, miked, mimed, mined, mired, mixed, model, modem, modes, monde, mooed, moped, moved, mowed, muled, mured, mused, muted, named, odeum, rimed, sedum, tamed, timed, umped. | |
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