Racon

Definition: Racon

Racon

Noun

1. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	(From radar beacon)A transponder for interrogation by a primary radar. (references)
Post & Telecom	A fixed radio transmitter whose radiations enable a craft to determine its own direction or position relative to the beacon by means of its own radar equipment. Source: European Union. (references)
	In marine use, a transponder used as a radar beacon to enable a craft to determine its position relative to the racon. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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
Racon	English	Radar beacon	Military & Defense
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Racon

Synonym: radar beacon (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Racon

Specialty definitions using "racon": FACILITIES-FLIGHT-CHECK PILOT. (references)

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Language		Translations for "racon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		rakon (radar beacon), radarfyr (radar beacon), Racon. (various references)

Dutch		radarbaken (radar beacon), Racon, antwoordbaken (responder, transponder). (various references)

Finnish		Racon-majakka, Racon, tutkamajakka (radar beacon). (various references)

French		Racon (radar beacon), balise-radar (radar beacon), balise de radiodétection (radar beacon). (various references)

German		Rakon, Radarbake (radar beacon), Racon. (various references)

Greek		Racon, ραδιοφάρος-ραντάρ (radar beacon). (various references)

Italian		radarfaro risponditore, radarfaro a risposta, radarfaro (radar beacon), racon. (various references)

Pig Latin		aconray.(various references)

Portuguese		radiobaliza com radar (radar beacon), racon, baliza radar (radar beacon). (various references)

Spanish		Racon (radar beacon), baliza-radar (radar beacon), baliza radar activa (radar beacon), baliza de radar (radar beacon). (various references)

Swedish		radarfyr (radar beacon), Racon. (various references)

Turkish		radar huzmesi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "racon": racons, raconteur, raconteurs. (additional references)
	Words ending with "racon": ostracon. (additional references)
	Words containing "racon": braconid, braconids, draconian, draconic, ultraconservatism, ultraconservatisms, ultraconservative, ultraconservatives, ultracontemporaries, ultracontemporary, ultraconvenient. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acorn, narco.
	Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: arco, carn, corn, narc, orca, roan.
	-2 letters: arc, can, car, con, cor, nor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ran, roc.
	-3 letters: an, ar, na, no, on, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: acorns, anchor, archon, candor, cantor, carbon, carton, contra, corban, cornea, cornua, corona, craton, crayon, garcon, macron, narcos, racons, racoon, rancho, rancor.
	+2 letters: acrogen, acronic, acronym, anchors, archons, caldron, candors, candour, canonry, cantors, carbons, cardoon, carotin, carrion, carryon, cartons, cartoon, chantor, clangor, clarion, coarsen, contras, coranto, corbans, corbina, corneae, corneal, corneas, cornual, coronae, coronal, coronas, corvina, courant, courlan, crampon, crannog, cratons, crayons, enactor, garcons, macrons, minorca, monarch, narcose, nomarch, ocarina, organic, raccoon, racoons, ranchos, rancors, rancour, romance.
	+3 letters: accentor, acrimony, acrodont, acrogens, acrolein, acromion, acronyms, amelcorn, ancestor, anchored, anchoret, anoretic, anorexic, anorthic, antirock, apocrine, armonica, barranco, baryonic, braconid, bronchia, caldrons, calutron, cancroid, candours, canephor, cannonry, canorous, caponier, carbinol, carbonic, carbonyl, cardamon, cardoons, careworn, carillon, caroling, caroming, carotene, carotins, carrions, carrotin, carryons, cartoned, cartoons, cartoony, caryotin, cauldron, cavicorn, chaldron, chamfron, chanfron, chantors, chaperon, chlordan, choreman, chronaxy, cilantro, clangors, clangour, clarions, coanchor, coarsens, cocinera, coenamor, colander, colinear, colorant, colorman, columnar, condylar, conelrad, conferva, congrats, consular, contract, contrail, contrary, contrast, coparent, copatron, coplanar, corantos, corbinas, cordovan, cordwain, cornball, corncake, cornmeal, coronach, coronals, coronary, coronate, corpsman, corvinas, corybant, coumarin, courante, couranto, courants, courlans, crampons, crampoon, crankous, crannoge, crannogs, cratonic, crayoned, creation, croaking, cropland, crunodal, deaconry, dormancy, draconic, enactors, enactory, encroach, endocarp, endosarc, falconer, falconry, fornical, fraction, fricando, hadronic, harmonic, ironclad, ironical, macaroni, macaroon, marocain, minorcas, monarchs, monarchy, monocarp, monocrat, morainic, mordancy, nacreous, narcoses, narcosis, narcotic, nomarchs, nomarchy, nonactor, normalcy, novercal, ocarinas, octonary, omniarch, ordnance, organics, ostracon, outrance, paranoic, parsonic, picaroon, portance, procaine, prochain, raccoons, raincoat, ranchero, rancored, rancours, reaction, rhonchal, roaching, romanced, romancer, romances, romantic, sardonic, scenario, tornadic, traction, turncoat, unanchor, veronica, zirconia.
	+4 letters: absconder, accentors, accordant, according, accordion, accretion, acrodonts, acroleins, acromions, acronymic, aeronomic, agronomic, amelcorns, anaerobic, anaphoric, ancestors, anchorage, anchoress, anchorets, anchoring, anchorite, anchorman, anchormen, androecia, announcer, anorectic, anoretics, anorexics, antechoir, anthropic, arachnoid, arccosine, arecoline, armonicas, arrogance, baronetcy, barracoon, barrancos, binocular, braconids, broaching, brocading, bronchial, cairngorm, calutrons, cancerous, cancroids, canephors, cankerous, cannoneer, canonries, cantorial, caparison, caponiers, carbamino, carbanion, carbinols, carbonade, carbonado, carbonara, carbonate, carbonize, carbonyls, carcinoid, carcinoma, cardamons, carillons, carnation, carnivora, carnivore, carnotite, carolling, carotenes, carousing, carroming, carronade, carrotins, cartoning, cartooned, caryotins, cauldrons, cavernous, cavorting, censorial, chaldrons, chamfrons, chancroid, chancrous, chanfrons, chaperone, chaperons, charwoman, charwomen, chloracne, chlordane, chlordans, chromatin, chronaxie, cilantros, clamoring, clangored, clangours, clarioned, coanchors, coarsened, cocineras, coenamors, coeternal, colanders, collaring, collinear, colorants, comanager, commander, communard, comparing, concealer, conciliar, concordat, conelrads, conferral, confervae, confervas, conformal, consortia, constrain, container, contracts, contrails, contralto, contrasts, contrasty, coparents, copartner, copatrons, coralline, corantoes, cordovans, cordwains, coriander, cormorant, cornballs, cornbread, corncakes, corncrake, cornelian, cornerman, cornmeals, cornstalk, coronachs, coronated, coronates, corposant, corrading, corrasion, coruscant, corybants, coumarins, courantes, courantos, courtesan, covariant, crackdown, crampoons, crannoges, crayoning, crayonist, creations, cremation, crenation, creodonta, croissant, croplands, diachrony, dichondra, doctrinal, draconian, encourage, endocarps, endosarcs, factoring, falconers, fancywork, fornicate, fractions, francolin, furcation, geomancer, gerfalcon, gyrfalcon, harmonica, harmonics, holandric, ignorance, incubator, indicator, inorganic, involucra, ironclads, larcenous, macaronic, macaronis, macaroons, manticore, marocains, monarchal, monarchic, monocarps, monocracy, monocrats, monocular, mortician, mucronate, narcotics, narcotize, nectarous, nocturnal, nonactors, noncareer, nondancer, nonfactor, nonracial, nucleator, nucleolar, obscurant, oceanaria, olecranon, omniarchs, ordinance, ordnances, outracing, outrances, overclean, panoramic, pantropic, paranoiac, paranoics, pharaonic, picaroons, pickaroon, porcelain, portances, procaines, procreant, prolactin, proscenia, pyromancy, raconteur, raincoats, rancheros, rancorous, reactions, recoaling, recoinage, recontact, redaction, resonance, romancers, romancing, romantics, scenarios, secondary, suctorian, thornback, tolerance, tractions, transonic, turncoats, unanchors, undercoat, veronicas, zirconias.
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