range finder

1. 1.

   a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object

   Synonymsrangefinder

   Broadermeasuring instrument

Questions about range finder

What does range finder mean?

range finder means "a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object".

What is another word for range finder?

Close synonyms include rangefinder. 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 range finder a common word?

range finder 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.