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echolocations

echolocations is the plural of echolocation.

Meaning of echolocation

Noun

echolocation (countable and uncountable, plural echolocations)

  1. The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures.
    • Since there is no convenient term available to describe this process of locating obstacles by means of echoes, I suggest the word echolocation[…]. The meaning of this word, and a corresponding verb to echolocate, are likely to be clear when first heard or read, since they are formed simply by...1944 December 29, Donald Redfield Griffin, “Echolocation by Blind Men, Bats and Radar”, in Science, volume 100, number 2609, →DOI, page 598, columns 1–2
    Synonyms:
    biosonar

Questions about echolocations

What is echolocations the plural of?
Echolocations is the plural of echolocation.

Words near echolocations in the dictionary

  1. echolocated
  2. echolocates
  3. echolocating
  4. echolocation
  5. echolocational
  6. echolocations
  7. echolocative
  8. echolocator
  9. echolocators
  10. echolocatory
  11. echologia

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