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. Billy Ray Morris:

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

3. Bryan Clark:

   At the end of WWII we did not have an undersea advantage. The Germans had developed submarines with snorkels and the US was searching for how they would deal with them. The new subs could avoid radar detection and were quiet when using their batteries. Then, nuclear submarines came along. Passive sonar worked really well against them because they make noise continuously. Passive sonar works well against nuclear submarines and is less effective against diesels.

4. 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.

5. 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.