UAS

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Noun

UAS (plural UAS)

  1. Initialism of Unmanned Aircraft/Aerial System(s).
    Synonym: (informal) drone
    Coordinate term: UAV
    • 2017, Harrison G. Wolf, Drones: Safety Risk Management for the Next Evolution of Flight, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Looking at the commercial entities looking to fly in the UAE, they are able to capture images and data via UAS/drone use, and have access to large areas through the approval process of the UAE.
    • 2019, James S. Aber, Irene Marzolff, Johannes Ries, Susan Elizabeth Ward Aber, Small-Format Aerial Photography and UAS Imagery: Principles, Techniques and Geoscience Applications, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 119:
      Their presence in the skies and news have become so evident that Time recently titled a Special Report issue devoted to UAS "The Drone Age" (Time 2018). UAS are free-flying, powered aircraft that may be flown remotely by a pilot on the ground or programmed to fly autonomously along specified routes to designated waypoints.

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Noun

UAS (first-person possessive UASku, second-person possessive UASmu, third-person possessive UASnya)

  1. (education) initialism of ulangan akhir semester.
  2. (education) initialism of ujian akhir semester (semester final examination).