echo sounding

1. 1.

   determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it

   Synonymsecholocation

   Broaderlocalization

Questions about echo sounding

What does echo sounding mean?

echo sounding means "determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it".

What is another word for echo sounding?

Close synonyms include echolocation. 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 sounding a common word?

echo sounding 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.