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echolocating

echolocating is the present participle and gerund of echolocate.

Meaning of echolocate

Verb

echolocate (third-person singular simple present echolocates, present participle echolocating, simple past and past participle echolocated)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To locate by means of echolocation.
    • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2013, pages 206–7

Words formed from echolocating

Questions about echolocating

What is echolocating the present participle and gerund of?
Echolocating is the present participle and gerund of echolocate.

Words near echolocating in the dictionary

  1. echolike
  2. echolocalization
  3. echolocate
  4. echolocated
  5. echolocates
  6. echolocating
  7. echolocation
  8. echolocational
  9. echolocations
  10. echolocative
  11. echolocator

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