"sonar" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/ [General-American], /ˈsəʊ.nɑː/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-sonar.ogg Forms: sonars [plural], SONAR [alternative]
Etymology: By anacronymic evolution from SONAR. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sonar (countable and uncountable, plural sonars)
  1. (nautical, usually uncountable) Artificial echolocation by use of electronic equipment, with hydrophones to locate objects underwater, using the same wave-analysis principles that radar uses. Wikidata QID: Q133220 Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: ASDIC Hypernyms: imaging Coordinate_terms: sodar, radar, lidar, ;, ultrasonography
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  2. (nautical, countable) A device that provides such echolocation. Tags: countable Hypernyms: device Translations (device): سُونار (sūnār) [masculine] (Arabic), սոնար (sonar) (Armenian), ջրատեղորոշիչ (ǰrateġorošičʻ) (Armenian), sonar [masculine] (Catalan), 聲納 /声纳 (shēngnà) (Chinese Mandarin), sonaro (Esperanto), kaikuluotain (Finnish), ääniluotain (Finnish), kaikuluotaus (Finnish), sonar [masculine] (French), Sonar [neuter] (German), ηχοβολιστικό (ichovolistikó) (Greek), σόναρ (sónar) (Greek), ómsjá [feminine] (Icelandic), sónar [masculine] (Icelandic), sonar (Indonesian), pemair suara (Indonesian), idrofono [masculine] (Italian), sonar [masculine] (Italian), 音波水中探知機 (onpa suichū tanchi-ki) (Japanese), ソナー (Japanese), 음파 탐지기 (eumpa tamjigi) (Korean), asdic [masculine] (Polish), azdyk [masculine] (Polish), sonar [masculine] (Polish), sonar [masculine] (Portuguese), sonar [neuter] (Romanian), гидролока́тор (gidrolokátor) [masculine] (Russian), сона́р (sonár) [masculine] (Russian), sónar [masculine] (Spanish), sonar (Tagalog), โซนาร์ (soo-nâa) (Thai), sonar (Turkish)
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  3. (loosely) Any echolocation. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: active sonar, Doppler sonar

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Polish",
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      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sonar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sonar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sonar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "gidrolokátor",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гидролока́тор"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "sonár",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сона́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sónar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "sonar"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "lang_code": "th",
      "roman": "soo-nâa",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "โซนาร์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "sonar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sonar"
}

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