distress signal in English

noun
1
a signal from a ship or aircraft in danger.
If I screw up, I want you to send a distress signal and evacuate this ship.
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1. A distress signal.

2. It's a distress signal from the Acheron.

3. 30 The crew of Philante picked up a distress signal from the yacht Sans Peur III.

4. New meaning was given to the distress signal SOS by the coining of the slogan “Switch Off Something.”

5. The signal booster's completely shot which means there's no way we can transmit a distress signal through a planetary atmosphere.

6. Befriend is an open-source distress signal sending application which notifies your contacts of your location whenever you're in danger

7. At midday on June 21, the ferry sent out a distress signal; radio contact was lost at 12:30 PST (04:30 GMT).

8. A distress signal from a personal locator beacon, which provided a GPS location on Mt. Baldy, alerted the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Aviation at about 10:50 a.m

9. The distress call should comprise: 1. the distress signal "MAYDAY" spoken three times; 2. the words "THIS IS"; 3. the call sign of the aircraft in distress spoken three times. Example :

10. Ailurophile by Boo64 A distress signal gone wrong causes an alien life form to board your ship, now left with no other choice you must find a way to escape the ship with your life and find your owner

11. Alien (6,483) IMDb 8.4 1 h 56 min 1979 X-Ray R On their voyage home, the crew of the deepspace tug Nostromo investigate an Alien distress signal, inadvertently picking up and bringing aboard an extraterrestrial life form with violent and lethal survival instincts.

12. In this '60s retro prequel to the bizarro-noir Bloodsucker's Handbook (AKA Enchiridion), Bloodsucker's Planet follows the crew of the space ship Argosy as they respond to a distress signal from the industrial Planet Mara only to discover the planet is ruled by the sinister Mother Vampire.

13. Concerning measures to address harmful interference to maritime mobile & aeronautical mobile services (agenda item 1.14), there is a growing concern that routine or illegal communications between ships is impacting on distress and safety-of-life communications of ships and aircraft in the HF bands in the two distress signal bands.