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avionics

avionics

10 7.6
The science and use of electronic systems in aircraft and spacecraft for navigation and communication
  • noun
  • /ˌeɪviˈɒnɪks/
  • Specialized
: aviónica
  • Modern avionics play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and efficiency of flights.
  • avionics system

And they would just acquire all these fleets of aging fighters, kind of sweeten them up with with better avionics, more capability.

Examples

  • Increasingly sophisticated avionics are pushing the limits of current cooling systems in aircraft.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Astronautics is a government contractor known for its avionics products.

    Academic text (1994)

  • - Actually, I was an avionics engineer.

    The Good Guy (2009)

  • Engineers were responsible for the systems, structure, equipment, and avionics in their zone.

    Academic text (1996)

  • New weapons, new avionics, new airplanes in some cases.

  • Beneath its skin of 21st-century composites is a highly advanced avionics and weapons package.

    Hot Shots! (1991)

  • Low-cost deep space exploration missions will require highly miniaturized, yet highly capable and reliable avionics systems.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Work is currently underway on advanced packaging and miniaturization of avionics elements as well as on environmentally tolerant systems.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Applications include radar and sonar communications, military avionics, ship control, mission and targeting computers, reconnaissance, satellite tracking, display systems, and encryption.

    Academic text (2006)

  • NASA 507, a certified Lancair Columbia 300 general aviation aircraft, has state-of-the-art avionics, a color moving map/GPS, and a side-arm control stick.

    Academic text (2001)

Surface Forms

avionics singular
avionics plural

Morphology

avionics = aviation (semi-transparent) = avion + ics

Formed from aviation/avion + the suffix '-ics'; the relation to 'aviation' is clear but the specialized sense 'electronic systems for aircraft' requires knowing '-ics' as denoting a field or the idea of 'electronics'.

Etymology

Avionics joins avi-, a root meaning 'bird' or 'flight' and seen in aviation, with electronics, so it simply means 'electronics for flight'.