echo sounder

Questions about echo sounder

What is another word for echo sounder?

It depends which echo sounder you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are sonar, asdic. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of echo sounder?

WordNet records no antonym for echo sounder. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for echo sounder come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of echo sounder

• Full entry for echo sounderAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for echo sounderWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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