Echolocation
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See:
- Acoustic location: The general use of sound to locate objects
- Animal echolocation: animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate.
- Human echolocation: the use by blind people of sound to navigate.
- Sonar: (sound navigation and ranging) the use of sound to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines.
- Echo sounding: listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure the distance to the bottom of the sea, a special case of Sonar.
- Medical ultrasonography: the use of ultrasound echos to look inside the body
See also:
- Radar: locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted radio waves
- Echolocation (album), an album by Fruit Bats
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