asdic

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymssonarecho sounder

   Broadermeasuring instrumentnavigational instrument

   Part ofsubmarine

   Partspingerpulse generator

Other forms of asdic

plural

asdics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asdic

What does asdic mean?

asdic means "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".

How many syllables are in asdic?

asdic has 2 syllables: as-dic. The stress falls on "as".

What is another word for asdic?

Close synonyms include sonar, echo sounder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asdic a common word?

asdic 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.