echo-sounder in English
noun
1
a device for determining the depth of the seabed or detecting objects in water by measuring the time taken for sound echoes to return to the listener.
As the low, green islands began to take shape, the echo sounder , which had been showing the same number all morning, came alarmingly to life, going from 15 feet to nearly zero in a few seconds.
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1. 2 synonyms for Asdic: echo sounder, sonar
2. The acoustic images done by Side Scan Sonar , Sub - bottom Profiler and Multi - beam Echo Sounder give a clear enough view of a number of structures which resemble those of the Harappan age .
3. Asdic: 1 n a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return “ Asdic is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee” Synonyms: echo sounder , sonar Type of: measuring device , measuring instrument , measuring system instrument that