control tower

control tower

noun
a glass-enclosed, elevated structure for the visual observation and control of the air and ground traffic at an airport.
Also called tower.


Origin:
1915–20
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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control tower
 
n
a tower at an airport from which air traffic is controlled

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