sonar

Other forms of sonar

plural

sonars·

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 sonar

What does sonar mean?

sonar means "a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return".

How many syllables are in sonar?

sonar has 2 syllables: so-nar. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊnɑɹ/.

What is another word for sonar?

Close synonyms include echo sounder, asdic. 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 sonar a common word?

sonar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.