directional signal


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directional signal

n.
One of two lights on the front and rear of an automotive vehicle that flash to indicate the direction of a turn. Also called turn signal.
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The troopers saw the defendant get in the car that the tipster had mentioned, pull away, signal a turn into a cross street but instead drive straight through the intersection, and, at a point where the police car was visible, reverse direction and then turn into the cross street in the direction opposite to his original directional signal. One of the troopers testified that reversing direction as the defendant had done was known as a tactic by suspects trying to elude police following them.
Ryan's report, around 2 a.m., the trooper observed a gray Acura TL with a defective plate light cross from the far right lane of I-84 eastbound over to the third travel lane without using its directional signal and while cutting off a tractor trailer.
This technology simply adapts beam patterns to local conditions to enable higher-gain directional signal emulation.
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CPI, which is judged to be the next directional signal for markets.
Class D K241CS has a highly directional signal from a 2,000+-foot peak in North Mountain Village; the signal is aimed at West Valley communities such as Glendale, Peoria and Surprise, Ariz.
The directional signal, which allows the animal to know which way it is facing, is already at adult levels as soon as it can be measured in newborn rats.
WCHB serves the Detroit market with a directional signal emitting 50kw during daylight hours from four towers, and 15kw at night from no less than 10 towers.
WRMN-AM in Elgin, Ill., boasting a nighttime directional signal at 1410 kHz that has 1kw during daylight hours from 1 tower and 1.3kw at night from 4 towers
Maldonado failed to use a directional signal and didn't display a license plate on the vehicle.
When there is much less light available, a weak signal of motion from the 'up' neurons, coupled with a weak signal from any of the other directional cells can help the brain sense movement, similar to the way it interprets two directional signals as being a motion that is something in between.

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