radio detection and ranging

Questions about radio detection and ranging

What does radio detection and ranging mean?

radio detection and ranging means "measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects".

What is another word for radio detection and ranging?

Close synonyms include radar, microwave radar, radiolocation. 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 radio detection and ranging a common word?

radio detection and ranging 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.