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Radar

noun

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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... to others, a highly refined, vastly superior great-grandson of the older radar that had required much more in the way of equipment than the tiny bulk of this device, but to him, alone in his spacesuit, the galaxy spread around him, it was the weapon with which he ...

— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond

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