中文翻译与英英解释

灯光信标。

electric:    adj. 1.电的；带电的；起电的，导电的，发电的，电动 ...

beacon:    n. 1.(作为信号的)烽火，篝火。 2.信号所，望楼； ...

In navigation, an electric beacon is a kind of beacon, a device which marks a fixed location and allows direction finding equipment to find relative bearing, the direction to the beacon. The most common are radio beacons, which broadcast a radio signal which is picked up by radio direction finding systems on ships, aircraft and vehicles to determine the bearing to the beacon, but the term also covers infrared and sonar beacons.