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Echo Sounder

Definition: Echo Sounder

Echo Sounder

Noun

1. 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 (sonar is SOund NAvigation Ranging; asdic is Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Echo Sounder

DomainDefinitions

Mining

In oceanography, a sounding apparatus using echo delay, for determiningautomatically the depth of sea beneath a ship. (references)

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Synonyms: Echo Sounder

Synonyms: asdic (n), sonar (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Echo Sounder

Specialty definitions using "echo sounder": sonoprobe. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Echo Sounder

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Modern Translations: Echo Sounder

Language Translations for "echo sounder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

aparat matës jehone. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ехолот (fathometer), подражател (ape, copy-cat, copyist, echo, imitator). (various references)

   

Czech

  

echolot, přístroj k mìření hloubky. (various references)

   

Danish

  

ekkolod (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounding, echo sounding machine, fathometer, sonic depth finder, sounding, ultrasonic sounding). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

echolood (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounding machine, fathometer, sonic depth finder, source which directs the sound vertically only). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaikuluotain (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, echo sounding machine, fathometer, sonic depth finder). (various references)

   

French

  

sondeur acoustique (echo depth finder), sonde écho (echo depth finder), échosonde (echo depth finder). (various references)

   

German

  

Echolot (acoustic sounder, asdic, echo depth finder, echo sounding machine, fathometer, sonar, sonic depth finder). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσκευή ηχοβολίσεως (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer), ηχοβολιστικό μηχάνημα (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer, sounder, sounding device, sounding machine). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ecoscandaglio (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer), ecometro (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer), scandaglio ultrasonoro (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

echoay oundersay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

эхолот (acoustic sounder, fathometer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dubinomer (sea gauge, sounder). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ecómetro (sonic sonde), sondador por eco (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer), sondador acústico (acoustic sounder, echo depth finder, fathometer, sonic sonde, sounder, sounding device, sounding machine). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ekolod (acoustic sounder, asdic, echo depth finder, fathometer, sonar). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sesli iskandil. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ехолот. (various references)

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Misspellings: Echo Sounder

Misspellings

"Echo Sounder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Echosounder. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Echo Sounder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-2 letters: coendures.

-3 letters: censored, censured, chorused, coendure, coenures, condores, corneous, coshered, crunodes, decorous, drenches, encoders, enshroud, honorees, honoured, hounders, necrosed, ocherous, ochreous, rechoose, rechosen, rehoused, schooner, seconder, unhorsed.

-4 letters: censure, cheders, cheeros, chooser, choused, chouser, churned, coenure, cohered, coheres, cohunes, condoes, condors, cordons, coursed, crooned, crunode, crushed, decerns, dehorns, douches, dunches, echoers, encoder, encodes, encored, encores, endorse, endures, enduros, ensured, euchred, euchres, hocused, honored, honoree, honours, hounder, necrose, ochered, ochrous, onerous, onshore, rechose, recodes, recused, reduces, rehouse, rescued, reshone, resound, rouches, scorned, scoured, seconde, secondo, secured, seducer, soroche, sounder, sourced, undoers, unhoods, unhorse, ushered.

-5 letters: ceders, censed, censer, censor, cereus, cerous, ceruse, cheder, cheero, cheers, choose, chords, chored, chores, chorus, chosen, chouse, churns, codens, coders, codons, cohere, cohune, condor, condos, cooeed, cooees, cooers, cordon, corned, cornus, coshed, cosher, course, credos, creeds, creesh, crones, croons, crouse, crudes, cursed, decern, decors, dehorn, denser, deuces, donees, donors, douche, douser, drench, drones, dunces, durocs, echoed, echoer, echoes, educes, encode, encore, enders, endues, endure, enduro, ensued, ensure, enured, enures, erodes, escudo, euchre, heders, hereon, heroes, herons, honers, honors, honour, hordes, horned, horsed, hounds, housed, houser, nodose, nodous, noosed, nooser, noshed, nosher, nursed, ochers, ochone, ochred, ochres, odeons, odours, onrush, ouched, ouches, ounces, recode, recons, recuse, redoes, redone, redons, reduce, reecho, rescue, resend, reshod, reshoe, reused, rodeos, rondos, roosed, roscoe, rouche, rouens, rounds, roused, ruched, ruches, rushed, rushee, schrod, scored, screed, screen, secern, second, secund, secure, seduce, sender, senhor, shooed, shored, shroud, snored, sonder, sooner, sorned, source, soured, sunder, undoer, undoes, unhood, unshed, unshod, uredos.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-n-o-o-r-s-u"
 

+4 letters: echinodermatous.

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Alternative Orthography: Echo Sounder


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 63 68 6F      53 6F 75 6E 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01100011 01101000 01101111 00100000 01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#32 &#83 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0063 0068 006F      0053 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39697481253818780707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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