RADAR


Meaning of RADAR in English

/ray"dahr/ , n.

1. Electronics. a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns.

2. a means or sense of awareness or perception: lobbyists working under the media's radar.

[ 1940-45, Amer.; ra ( dio ) d ( etecting ) a ( nd ) r ( anging ) ]

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