target

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noun the indication shown on a radar screen resulting from a primary radar return or a radar beacon reply

noun
(written as Target)
a system set up by the European central Bank to deal with cross-border payments between member states of the EU.
verb to aim something at someone, or to take someone or something as a target

A red-and-white target mounted on a surveyor's leveling rod; used to facilitate the sighting of the markings on the rod by the transit man.

The value of an economic variable that policy makers regard as ideal and use as the basis for setting policy. Contrasts with instrument.
The level of an exchange rate that guides exchange market intervention by a central bank or exchange stabilization fund.

Anything which is aimed at or which represents the objective of something. For example, a scanned object, a target electrode, particles subjected to bombardment, a target value in a control system, or a target language.
An object which reflects a sufficient amount of the energy beam emitted by a radar to produce a radar echo. Also called radar target, or scanned object.
In a TV camera tube, an electrode, surface, or other structure upon which the image is stored, and which is scanned by an electron beam to produce the output signal.
A particle, group of particles, surface, object, material, or the like, which is subjected to impacts by high-energy particles, such as electrons, neutrons, or alpha particles.
In an X-ray tube, the electrode which is bombarded, and from which X-rays are emitted.
In computers, the file, disk, system, or the like, towards which something is transferred or otherwise sent.

noun a surface or electrode, often luminescent, that is hit by an electron beam to produce an output signal, e.g. in a television camera tube

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