sonar

Questions about sonar

What is another word for sonar?

It depends which sonar 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 echo sounder, 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 sonar?

WordNet records no antonym for sonar. 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 sonar 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 sonar

• Full entry for sonarAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sonarWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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