radiolocation

Other forms of radiolocation

plural

radiolocations·

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 radiolocation

What does radiolocation mean?

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

How many syllables are in radiolocation?

radiolocation has 7 syllables: ra-di-o-lo-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for radiolocation?

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

radiolocation 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.