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say it: ek-oh-loh-KAY-shuhn
echolocation is a noun meaning "determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it". It carries one recorded sense.
determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for echolocation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.