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UK
/sˈəʊnɑː/
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[ US /ˈsoʊnɑɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈsoʊnɑɹ/ ]
NOUN
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a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return
sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging
asdic is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee
How To Use sonar In A Sentence
- The unit installs at the transom and emits sonar beams that ‘look’ out to 240 feet on either side of the boat.
- Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
- Digital scan converter (DSC) is an indispensable part in the display equipment of radar, biomedical ultra sound detector, sonar, electronic surface analyzer.
- Using echolocation, its sophisticated sonar system, each bat may catch and eat several stomachfuls of insects in a single night.
- The design of servo system for pitch attitudes of a mine hunting sonar array was made using frequency domain control and variable structure control respectively.
- Out in the Atlantic, vast Japanese factory ships work nonstop, using modern sonar detection to spot the tuna shoals they sweep the ocean clean of fish.
- Sobrij quoque sunt, quapropter et longo tempore viuunt: et si quis ab eorum moribus degenerat, proscribitur perpetuò sine mora, omnibus nulla posita differentia personarum, vnde et in iusto Dei iudicio, quòd naturalem exercere iustitiam contendunt, Elementa eis naturaliter obsequuntur, et rarò eos tangit tempestas, aut fames, pestilentia aut gladius. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- A novel submarine optical fiber cable monitoring system based on BOTDR and sonar is proposed, and the method of measurement is also discussed.
- Observations of Freddy led them to conclude that dolphins use sonar while hunting.
- The SUNS system can determine positions underwater by the use of small buoys which broadcast the position and time references by sonar signals.