echo sounder

Questions about echo sounder

What does echo sounder mean?

echo sounder 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".

What is another word for echo sounder?

Close synonyms include sonar, asdic. 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 echo sounder a common word?

echo sounder 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.