SONAR

See also: sonar, Sonar, sónar, and soñar

English

Etymology

Acronym of sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s, roughly contemporaneously with radar. The lowercase form (sonar) is by anacronymic evolution.

Noun

SONAR (countable and uncountable, plural SONARs)

  1. (dated) Alternative form of sonar.

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