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Example sentences for: sonar
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Toward that end, Gallager is working on an under-ice “zooplankton observatory” that would sit on the bottom of the ocean floor and continuously release a flotation package—“once an hour, for hopefully the next ten years”—outfitted with sonar and optical sensors up to the surface, then winch itself back down again.
' Although the editor mentions pronounceable acronyms in his Preface, users would be at a loss to determine that UN and R.A.F . are not pronounced but that R.A.D.A . (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts “RAHdah”), UNICEF, U.N.C.L.E ., and Pan-Am are; worse, the showing of radar as RADAR (for `radio detecting and ranging') and sonar as SONAR (`sound navigation and ranging') is in outright error.
The Post also reports that the plane disappeared from radar screens at 8,000 feet, suggesting that it may have begun to break up, but the NYT reports that searchers' sonar readings indicate that a large piece of the aircraft, perhaps the fuselage--which would contain many of the victims and also the flight recorders--is sitting intact in about 120 feet of water.