air search radar

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   a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft

   Broadernaval radar

Questions about air search radar

What does air search radar mean?

air search radar means "a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft".

Is air search radar a common word?

air search radar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.