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A device that sends out radio waves and picks them up after they strike some object and bounce back.

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Usage examples (37)
  • There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
  • radar The term radar is an acronym derived from the words radio detection and ranging.
  • Although it works fine, the "radar" is bigger then it needs to be. baditch
  • I would consider that to be what we call a radar unidentified flying object, because it was a radar target.
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