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subradar

subradar adjective: below an area being investigated by radar.

Adjective

subradar (not comparable)

  1. Below an area being investigated by radar.
    • One of the major difficulties with this method is that the largely unknown planetary topography can introduce errors in round trip travel times as much as 5 μs (i.e., the subradar point could be a mountaintop or a valley) […]1993, Clifford M. Will, Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics, page 175

Origin of subradar

From sub- + radar.

Questions about subradar

What does subradar mean?
Subradar means below an area being investigated by radar.
What part of speech is subradar?
Subradar is an adjective.

Words near subradar in the dictionary

  1. subrace
  2. subraces
  3. subracial
  4. subrack
  5. subracks
  6. subradar
  7. subradial
  8. subradials
  9. subradiance
  10. subradiant
  11. subradiate

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