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surface clutter

surface clutter noun: unwanted radar or sonar wave reflection arising from the land or sea surface.

Noun

surface clutter (uncountable)

  1. Unwanted radar or sonar wave reflection arising from the land or sea surface.
    • Unwanted echoes usually occur as distributed clutter, as surface clutter (such as land and sea echoes) or as volume clutter (such as rain, chaff).2004, Rajeev Bansal, Handbook of Engineering Electromagnetics, →ISBN, page 405

Questions about surface clutter

What does surface clutter mean?
Surface clutter means unwanted radar or sonar wave reflection arising from the land or sea surface.
What part of speech is surface clutter?
Surface clutter is a noun.

Words near surface clutter in the dictionary

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  2. surface boundary layer
  3. surface boundary layers
  4. surface car
  5. surface cars
  6. surface clutter
  7. surface combatant
  8. surface combatants
  9. surface discharge
  10. surface energies
  11. surface energy

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