noun
Lorenz
luh-REHNZ
noun
1
A radio-based guidance system that helped pilots line up with a runway for landing in low visibility, used at German military airfields.
"The old airfield still had traces of its wartime Lorenz beam equipment."
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Etymology
Named after the German company C. Lorenz AG, which developed the landing-aid system; the surname itself comes from Latin Laurentius.