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ˈsoʊ nɑrsonar

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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

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  1. hydrophone

    an underwater microphone that checks sound

    Submitted by anonymous on November 24, 2019  

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  1. List of paraphrases for "sonar":

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  1. Ric Gillespie:

    We’ll use a camera-equipped underwater Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) to investigate a sonar anomaly at a depth of 600 feet that could be the fuselage of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra.

  2. 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.

  3. Thomas Shugart:

    Sonar is your only way to look at the bottom, but you don't want to put out more sound than you have to, you'd have to do that about every 20 seconds or so.

  4. 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.

  5. Steve Feltham:

    We get sonar contacts with things that are far bigger than any fish that should live in this body of water, we only get one or two decent sightings a year.


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