What does Sonar mean?

Definitions for Sonar
ˈsoʊ nɑrsonar

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. sonarnoun

    echolocation

  2. sonarnoun

    A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

Wikipedia

  1. soñar

    Dulce Beat (Sweet Beat) is the second album from the Mexican electropop band Belanova. The album was recorded between 2004 and 2005 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It was officially released in Mexico on June 21, 2005, following the single "Me Pregunto". The album was produced by Cachorro López and was written by the band's singer, Denisse Guerrero. Dulce Beat was a commercial and critical success, reaching number-one and ensuring double platinum in Mexico. It has become Belanova's most successful album. In 2006, the album was released in several other countries across the world, including Chile, Spain, Argentina, and the United States. In Argentina, the band performed at radio shows and concerts where they presented the single "Me Pregunto". In Chile they performed at The Roxy, presenting all the tracks on the album. Belanova and Mach & Daddy played a concert in Los Angeles in front of 50,000 people to promote their projects; in this show, Belanova performed a cover of the song "Boys Don't Cry" by the band The Cure. On August 12, 2006, E! Latin America, aired a TV Special of Belanova, with interviews and making of the album. Singles from the album became massive hits, both of them ("Me Pregunto" and "Por Ti") became the band's second and third number-one singles in Mexico consecutively, further singles, "Rosa Pastel" and "Niño" became top five hits, the latter spending almost fifty weeks inside the chart.

ChatGPT

  1. sonar

    Sonar, an abbreviation for Sound Navigation And Ranging, is a system or technology used for detecting or locating objects, particularly underwater, by emitting sound pulses and measuring the time it takes for the echo to return. It is commonly used in submarine navigation, underwater exploration, fishing, and marine conservation.

Wikidata

  1. Sonar

    Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels. Two types of technology share the name "sonar": passive sonar is essentially listening for the sound made by vessels; active sonar is emitting pulses of sounds and listening for echoes. Sonar may be used as a means of acoustic location and of measurement of the echo characteristics of "targets" in the water. Acoustic location in air was used before the introduction of radar. Sonar may also be used in air for robot navigation, and SODAR is used for atmospheric investigations. The term sonar is also used for the equipment used to generate and receive the sound. The acoustic frequencies used in sonar systems vary from very low to extremely high. The study of underwater sound is known as underwater acoustics or hydroacoustics.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. sonar

    A sonic device used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects. (This term is derived from the words

Anagrams for Sonar »

  1. roans

  2. sorna

  3. arson

  4. saron

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sonar in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sonar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Sonar in a Sentence

  1. 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.

  2. The NTSB:

    The target identified by Orion (side-scan radar) is consistent with a 790-foot cargo ship, which from sonar images appears to be in an upright position and in one piece.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Billy Ray Morris:

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

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