surface search radar
- noun
- Specialized
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radar de búsqueda de superficie
- During the training exercise, the crew learned how to operate the surface search radar effectively.
Examples
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The naval vessel relied on the surface search radar to locate enemy ships in the area.
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"ISAR, or Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar, was a new feature of the 'Square Tie' surface search radar that could combine vertical and horizontal radar scans with Doppler-frequency shift information to get a two-dimensional 'picture' of a surface return;
Fiction book (1991) -
Surface-search radars only.
Fiction book (1991) -
The jamming was so heavy now that Chagda was virtually blind, the surface-search radar a jumble of spikes and false targets, the electronic countermeasures ineffective.
Fiction book (1991) -
Using the surface search radar, they detected several boats approaching the coastline.
Synonyms
A device on a navy ship that uses radio waves to find other ships and help it navigate
How Far
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a radar system used to detect surface targets' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'surface' (the outer/top layer, here the sea surface), 'search' (an effort to locate), and 'radar' (a detection device). This straightforward noun–noun compositional pattern matches common technical naming conventions and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun surface search radar is very literal: it names a radar that searches the surface of the water to 'find' ships and boats. So today it means a radar device used to 'find' and 'follow' ships on the sea.
