omnibearing

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English

Etymology

From omni- +‎ bearing.

Noun

omnibearing (plural omnibearings)

  1. (aviation) The bearing of an aircraft, usually relative to magnetic north, determined by omnidirectional radio signals.
    • 1959, Kenneth Franklin Gantz, Man in Space:
      Consequently the capsule could be positioned only by omnibearings reported from the capsule.
    • 1967, Norman R. Driscoll, Effects of a Simple Stability Augmentation System on the Performance of Non-instrument-qualified Light-aircraft Pilots During Instrument Flight., page 11:
      By map reference and omnibearings, he erroneously estimated his position at E', and would have attempted to fly a heading away from the station had he not been corrected.
    • 1976, Flying: Used Planes - What Ten Grand Can Buy, page 12:
      Then a continuous readout of the omnibearing appears in the space used for frequency display, followed by an "F" when "from" is selected, for positive identification.
    • 1995, Samuel B. Fishbein, Flight management systems: the evolution of avionics and navigation:
      The bearing of the aircraft is shown in degrees on the aircraft's omnibearing selector. Left-right displacement from the bearing line is shown on the course-line-deviation indicator. To denote direction of the omnibearing line with respect to the VOR, a "to-from" ambiguity indicator is used.

Adjective

omnibearing (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to everything within a domain.
    • 1986, Daily Report: China - Issues 141-147:
      In order to achieve this aim, however, it is imperative to have an omnibearing industrial policy integrating different policies for different trades with different policies of the central and local authorities and of different regions.
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