Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryArtificial echolocation by use of electronic equipment, with hydrophones to locate objects underwater, using the same wave-analysis principles that radar uses. · A device that provides such echolocation. · Any echolocation.
By anacronymic evolution from SONAR.
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