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# Beacon

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Beacons are fires lit on hills or high places, used either as lighthouses for navigation? at sea or for signalling over land that enemy troups are approaching, and alerting the defence. In the latter form, beacons are an ancient form of optical telegraph and always used in relay leagues.

In modern technoparlance, a beacon can also be a radio transmitter used for navigation.

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