sonar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Artificial echolocation by use of electronic equipment, with hydrophones to locate objects underwater, using the same wave-analysis principles that radar uses.
A device that provides such echolocation.
Any echolocation.

noun

/ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/ /ˈsəʊ.nɑː/ en-us-sonar.ogg

sonar sonars

By anacronymic evolution from SONAR.

ASDIC

lidar radar

active sonar antisonar Doppler sonar sonarlike sonarman

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