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Definition: Echo Sounder |
Echo SounderNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | In oceanography, a sounding apparatus using echo delay, for determiningautomatically the depth of sea beneath a ship. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Echo SounderSynonyms: asdic (n), sonar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Echo Sounder |
| Specialty definitions using "echo sounder": sonoprobe. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
echo sounder | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Echo Sounder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Echosounder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 63 68 6F      53 6F 75 6E 64 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100011 01101000 01101111 00100000 01010011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c h o   S o u n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0063 0068 006F      0053 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39697481253818780707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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