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sonar

[soh-nahr] / ˈsoʊ nɑr /




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He trades the plush G-funk popular in L.A. for a style more common in New York—all hard surfaces and rigid drums, with a barely-there melody that pings like sonar.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

To track this daily movement, UBC researchers Drs. Philip Matthews and Evan McKenzie placed a sonar system on the lake floor.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Last month, explorers discovered the ruins of the Douglas DC-4 aircraft using an autonomous sonar drone that detected the aircraft's fuselage and tail.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Coast Guard and other partners, conducted a grid search for the vessel, which is believed to be about 120 feet deep in a rocky seabed, using boat-mounted sonar platforms and other tools.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Her words seemed to come from everywhere, rippling through the water like dolphin sonar.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Mayer and other scientists argued that emerging technologies, especially multibeam sonars that produce detailed 3D images, offered an unprecedented opportunity to document little known sea floors off the U.S.

From Science Magazine Jan. 8, 2024

Using a variety of sonars and two remotely operated vehicles — Deep Discoverer and Serios — researchers aboard the ship are mapping and collecting samples from areas along the Aleutian Trench and Gulf of Alaska.

From Seattle Times Aug. 14, 2023

National Marine Fisheries Service that concluded the Navy had "killed at least six whales in an accident involving common ship-based sonars."

From Salon Jan. 19, 2023

Could searchers’ sonars have already missed wreckage of Flight 370 in remote Indian Ocean?

From Washington Times Jul. 3, 2015

Tom filtered out the difference in the two sounds with the correlation calculator unit of one of his quality analyzer sonars.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey




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