sonar
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- noun
- /ˈsoʊnɑr/
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sonar
- The marine biologists used sonar to map the underwater terrain and locate schools of fish.
- use sonar
- a sonar system
- active sonar
You know cavitation is right, so you know no sound, but you can see it with sonar.
- You know cavitation is right, so you know no sound, but you can see it with sonar.
- And then at the end for the credits, put those sonar beeps back in with the underwater bubbles.
- They had a the Environment Agency, had a sonar wasn't like ours.
- No MSC trucks, which are your radar, your, your, they've got the sonar systems and stuff.
- But when you go around the Navy and talk to other sonar techs, they say they do see these quite often.
- And whether it's true or not, I want you to know how they pulled it off, how they potentially used sonar technology to activate exactly their plan.
- So there is presumably some resonance in, in, in air cavities and and soft tissues resulting from the sonar.
- They they found this and they use these recreated sonar images and they were baffled and he sat the Zielinski is his name.
Examples
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Set up a sonar probe immediately.
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We'll just use the sonar.
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I design software for sonar devices.
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Total loss of power on all sonar sets.
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We have a sonar fix on subject.
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Could be a simple matter of checking the sonar here.
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Submarine sonar systems work by sending out a pulse of sound and listening for the echo.
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Typically, a research ship with SONAR crisscrosses the ocean in a grid pattern, marking the water.
Academic text (2013) -
Scientists use SONAR to help sailors navigate by making maps of underwater hills and valleys.
Academic text (2013) -
Oceanographers use the Posidonia sonar system to track remotely operated undersea vehicles from their survey ship.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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A device that measures water depth by sending sound and listening for its return
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A device that measures water depth by sending sound and timing the echo
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A device that shows how deep the water is
A machine that sends sound pulses underwater and listens for echoes to find submarines
A device that uses sound waves to measure how deep water or things under it are
How Powerful
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Sonar comes from the English words sound, navigation, and ranging, so it literally means using 'sound' to find and measure things. Think of sonar like radar but with sound waves, which is why sonar systems send pulses and listen for echoes to detect objects underwater.