navigation light

English

Noun

navigation light (plural navigation lights) (usually in plural form)

1. (nautical, aviation) one of two or more lights fitted to a ship or aircraft, which indicate position and direction taken, especially important at night. Internationally recognised colours are red on the port side, and green on the starboard side.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

one of the lights on a ship or aircraft

• Finnish: kulkuvalo (ship), lentovalo (aircraft)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lanterne m or f

  Nynorsk: lanterne f

• Swedish: lanterna (sv) c

References

• “navigation lights”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• navigation light on Wikipedia.Wikipedia