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sonarlike

sonarlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of sonar.

Adjective

sonarlike (comparative more sonarlike, superlative most sonarlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of sonar.
    • They can fly — the only mammals that can — and most also possess the sonarlike ability to locate objects, like the insects they want to eat, by emitting high-pitched sonic pulses and then triangulating the echoes bouncing back to their oversize ears.2008 February 14, Kenneth Chang, “Primitive Bats Took to the Wing, but They Didn’t Have That Ping”, in New York Times

Forms of sonarlike

comparativemore sonarlike
superlativemost sonarlike

Origin of sonarlike

From sonar + -like.

Questions about sonarlike

What does sonarlike mean?
Sonarlike means resembling or characteristic of sonar.
What part of speech is sonarlike?
Sonarlike is an adjective.

Words near sonarlike in the dictionary

  1. sonantizing
  2. sonants
  3. Sonaparanta
  4. sonar
  5. Sonargaon
  6. sonarlike
  7. sonarman
  8. sonarmen
  9. sonars
  10. sonas
  11. sonata

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