ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system
- noun
- Specialized
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sistema de detección acústica de largo alcance remolcado por barco
- The navy upgraded their fleet with a new ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system for enhanced submarine tracking.
Examples
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During the exercise, the crew deployed the ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system to monitor underwater activity.
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Maintaining the ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system is crucial for effective maritime security operations.
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The ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system is crucial for underwater surveillance.
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Have you seen the new ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system on the research vessel?
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During the exercise, the crew deployed the ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system to monitor underwater activity.
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The navy upgraded their fleet with a new ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system for enhanced submarine tracking.
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Maintaining the ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system is crucial for effective maritime security operations.
Synonyms
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A device that uses sound to find objects under water
A machine that sends sound pulses underwater and listens for echoes to find submarines
How Sensitive
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- Specialized
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
ship-towed + long-range + acoustic + detection + system
The noun is fully compositional: modifiers ('ship-towed', 'long-range', 'acoustic', 'detection') directly qualify the head 'system', so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer this is a system to detect objects acoustically at long distances towed behind a ship. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift here—it's a technical compound built from transparent English word-formation patterns.
Etymology
Ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system comes from how the device works: the ship-towed gear is pulled behind a ship, the acoustic parts use sound, and the long-range idea means they listen far away to detect objects. So the phrase means 'a ship system pulled behind the ship that uses sound to find objects far away under water'.