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MLAT

MLAT is the abbreviation of mutual legal assistance treaty.

MLAT is the abbreviation of modern language aptitude test.

MLAT is the abbreviation of multilateration.

Meaning of multilateration

Noun

multilateration (uncountable)

  1. The process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location
    • We analyse a set of popular dating application that shares users relative distances within a certain radius and show how, by using the information shared on these platforms, it is possible to formalise a multilateration attack, able to identify the user actual position.2016, Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné, “Potential mass surveillance and privacy violations in proximity-based social applications”, in arXiv
    Synonyms:
    MLat

Forms of MLAT

pluralMLATs

Questions about MLAT

What is MLAT the abbreviation of?
MLAT is the abbreviation of mutual legal assistance treaty.

Words near MLAT in the dictionary

  1. Mlanje cedar
  2. Mlanje cedars
  3. Mlanje cypress
  4. Mlanje cypresses
  5. MLAs
  6. MLAT
  7. MLATs
  8. MLB
  9. MLBer
  10. MLBers
  11. MLC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MLAT (page history and authors); multilateration (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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