Exact Match:
- echolocation
- determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- bathymetry
collapse - measuring the depths of the oceans related words >
- altimetry,
- aquiculture,
- bathometry,
- biometrics,
- biometry,
- cadastration,
- cartography,
- chorography,
- craniometry,
- depth sounding,
- echo sounding,
- echolocation,
- fathomage,
- fathoming,
- geodesy,
- geodetics,
- goniometry,
- hydrography,
- hypsography,
- hypsometry,
- marine biology,
- mensuration,
- metrology,
- oceanography,
- planimetry,
- psychometrics,
- psychometry,
- sonar,
- sounding,
- soundings,
- stereometry,
- surveying,
- thalassography,
- topography,
- water
- oceanography
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- the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans related words >
- altimetry,
- aquiculture,
- bathometry,
- bathymetry,
- biometrics,
- biometry,
- cadastration,
- cartography,
- chorography,
- craniometry,
- depth sounding,
- echo sounding,
- echolocation,
- fathomage,
- fathoming,
- geodesy,
- geodetics,
- goniometry,
- hydrography,
- hypsography,
- hypsometry,
- marine biology,
- mensuration,
- metrology,
- planimetry,
- psychometrics,
- psychometry,
- sonar,
- sounding,
- soundings,
- stereometry,
- surveying,
- thalassography,
- topography,
- water
- sonar
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- 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" related words >
- astronavigation,
- bathometry,
- bathymetry,
- celestial navigation,
- chronometer,
- coastwise navigation,
- consolan,
- dead reckoning,
- depth sounding,
- echo sounding,
- echolocation,
- fathomage,
- fathoming,
- fix,
- line of position,
- loran,
- oceanography,
- pilotage,
- plane sailing,
- point-to-point navigation,
- radar,
- radio beacon,
- radio navigation,
- sextant,
- shoran,
- sofar,
- sounding,
- soundings,
- tables,
- water
- sounding
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- the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
- a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
- making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding"
- having volume or depth; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth related words >
- bathometry,
- bathymetry,
- booming,
- chiming,
- depth sounding,
- dinging,
- droning,
- echo sounding,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- echolocation,
- fathomage,
- fathoming,
- growling,
- jingling,
- lingering,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- oceanography,
- pealing,
- persistent,
- reboant,
- rebounding,
- reechoing,
- repercussive,
- resounding,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberatory,
- ringing,
- rumbling,
- sonar,
- sonation,
- soniferous,
- sonification,
- sonorous,
- sounded,
- soundings,
- thundering,
- tingling,
- tinkling,
- tintinnabular,
- tintinnabulary,
- tintinnabulous,
- tolling,
- tonal,
- toneless,
- undamped,
- water
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