sound ranging

1. 1.

   locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions

   Broadermeasurement

Questions about sound ranging

What does sound ranging mean?

sound ranging means "locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions".

Is sound ranging a common word?

sound 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.