Synonyms for sonar
ˈsoʊ nɑrsonar

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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"

   Synonyms:
   echo sounder, asdic

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1. • Measuring Instrument
   • Navigational Instrument

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1. hydrophone

   an underwater microphone that checks sound

   Submitted by anonymous on November 24, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "sonar":

   sound

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1. James Delgado:

   The sonar images showed the damage the Navy had initially documented is still very much there, the flight deck has been distorted. Some of the areas of the flight deck have started to collapse and there are holes in the deck.

2. William Couch:

   The latest version of the Mk 48 ADCAP (advanced capability) is the mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System. The Mk 48 ADCAP mod 7 CBASS torpedo is the result of a Joint Development Program with the Royal Australian Navy and achieved initial operational capability in 2006.

3. Thomas Shugart:

   Sonar is your only way to look at the bottom, but you don't want to put out more sound than you have to, you'd have to do that about every 20 seconds or so.

4. Skokie Fire Chief Jim Walters:

   It’s a recovery operation at this point, we pulled the divers about 9:30, 10:00 o’clock, went into recovery mode at that time and put the boats in the water with sonar and that gives us the best possibility of making a find.

5. 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.