Plan Position Indicator (PPI): The face or screen of a cathode-ray tube on which radar images appear in correct relation to each other, so that the scope face presents a chart like representation of the area about the antenna, the direction of a contact or target being represented by the direction of its echo from the center and its range by its distance from the center.

 

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