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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 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;
- Example: "sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging"
- Example: "asdic is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee"
[syn: sonar, echo sounder, asdic]
