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lidars

lidars is the plural of lidar.

Meaning of lidar

Noun

lidar (countable and uncountable, plural lidars)

  1. (uncountable, usually) The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.
    • Tesla bet on the idea that in the design of self-driving cars, lidar doesn't add enough capability, beyond what the cameras already provide, to be worth the additional cost.
  2. (countable) A device that provides such imaging.
    • There's a lidar mounted on the roof of that Waymo.

Noun (1) capitalized: LIDARs

LIDARs

  1. (plural) plural of LIDAR

Noun (2) capitalized: LiDARs

LiDARs

  1. (plural) plural of LiDAR

Phrases with lidars

Questions about lidars

What is lidars the plural of?
Lidars is the plural of lidar.
What part of speech is lidars?
Lidars is a noun.

Words near lidars in the dictionary

  1. Lida
  2. lidamidine
  3. lidamycin
  4. lidanserin
  5. lidar
  6. lidars
  7. Lidcombe
  8. liddat
  9. Liddaton
  10. lidded
  11. Liddel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lidars (page history and authors); LIDARs (page history and authors); LiDARs (page history and authors); lidar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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