Antonyms for sonar
ˈsoʊ nɑrsonar

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1. • Measuring Instrument
   • Navigational Instrument

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1. sonar, echo sounder, asdicnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   echo sounder, asdic

How to use sonar in a sentence?

1. Daniel Loxton:

   Loch Ness is not as big as the Himalayas, it is a finite body of water. It has been extensively scanned by sonar. It's been observed for decades. There's just really no possibility that there's a plesiosaur in Loch Ness, or even anything of comparable size.

2. Jamie McMichael-Phillips:

   One of the huge challenges we have is quite simply physics, unlike mapping the Earth's surface where we can use a camera [ or ] satellites, at sea, light does not penetrate through the water column. So we're pretty much limited to using sonar systems.

3. James Delgado:

   The sonar images showed the damage the Navy had initially documented is still very much there, the flight deck has been distorted. Some of the areas of the flight deck have started to collapse and there are holes in the deck.

4. William Couch:

   The latest version of the Mk 48 ADCAP (advanced capability) is the mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System. The Mk 48 ADCAP mod 7 CBASS torpedo is the result of a Joint Development Program with the Royal Australian Navy and achieved initial operational capability in 2006.

5. Billy Ray Morris:

   The preservation of this vessel is astounding, you can see that in the sonar image.

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