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Radar   /rˈeɪdˌɑr/   Listen
Radar

noun
1.
Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.  Synonyms: microwave radar, radio detection and ranging, radiolocation.



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"Radar" Quotes from Famous Books



... On the morning the radar reported something odd out in space, Lockley awoke at about twenty minutes to eight. That was usual. He'd slept in a sleeping bag on a mountain-flank with other mountains all around. That was not unprecedented. He was there ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... com-tech to think of a thing like that! A small adjustment to the earphones built into his helmet, and Soriki, operating the flitter com, could give him a guide as efficient as the spacer's radar! He need not fear being lost in the streets should he lose touch with those ...
— Star Born • Andre Norton

... Symm said, "exist in their totality in a universe of extension. Time, actually is a drawback to radar, necessitating a duration-lag between sending and receiving. Therefore, Ramar Chind, radar behaves perfectly in hyper-space, as ...
— Equation of Doom • Gerald Vance

... record time. The Attison Detector was developed, a cross between radar and the electroencephalograph. Any alteration from the typical human brain wave pattern of the occupants of a Detector-equipped ship would boost the indicator around the dial. Even a bad dream or a case of indigestion would ...
— The Hour of Battle • Robert Sheckley

... cadet who could "take apart a rocket engine and put it back together again with his thumbs," thundered below to the atomic rockets he loved more than anything else in the universe. Roger Manning, the third member of the famed Polaris unit, raced up the narrow ladder leading to the radar bridge to take command ...
— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell



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