active radar

English

Noun

active radar (countable and uncountable, plural active radars)

  2. A type of radar that uses radio waves generated by the radar equipment, as contrasted with a passive type that uses only radio waves originating from elsewhere.
    Hypernyms: radar < imaging
    Coordinate terms: active lidar, active sonar
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.