Word Finder - radar

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A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces

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A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.

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An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.

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A superior ability to detect something.

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His sensitive radar for hidden alliances keeps him out of trouble.

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To scan with radar, or as if with radar.

I could drop off the radar for a time.

Granted, Death's soul radar just kicked in.

I came right here, where the radar brought me.

Incidentally, he supposedly came on the radar as a result of a tip from this man or woman everyone's read about; the so-called psychic tipster person.

Brady looked up from the radar imaging on the screen before him.

Gabe dropped it and touched his forearm, willing the soul radar to guide him to the right place.

Worse, he wasn't able to operate under the radar for much longer, now that Gabriel had claimed his mate.

Several hours after Deidre walked through the portals back to Atlanta, Gabe's soul radar began working again.

He wouldn.t have been hurt if not for her, and Hannah may not have been dragged into the Immortal world if she hadn.t hit the radar of Kris.

The radar led you astray.

Death-dealers operated off a sense of soul radar that pulled them like magnets to the lives that were on Death's list to be ended.

If the radar was working, the soul would be within a few feet of him.

I prefer to keep under the radar.

When setting the low light of the radar altimeter, the person doing the setting should announce the setting he makes.

The Flag Officer's Pennant is just visible below the radar antenna.

I eyed a sporty little number but Betsy, with a family in her radar, opted for a mid-sized compact.

The soul radar takes me to you, if nowhere else.

Radar services outside controlled airspace might also be affected.

Magellan synthetic aperture radar data is combined with radar altimetry to develop a three-dimensional map of the surface.

Use your compass instead of the radar.

Radar and thermal image coverage was decent, indicating the vamps were mainly gathered in one spot.

It didn't break the triumvirate of laws he was required to follow, though it was likely to put him on the radar of the other deities, who were going to be cautious to trust him after past-Death's antics.

It was the first European satellite to carry a radar altimeter and was launched into an 800 kilometer altitude and 98.5 degree inclination orbit.

Key technologies include airborne radar systems avionics and mission systems, electronic warfare systems, electro optical systems, military...

Weather Bureau experts have informed me it is not possible to get a radar blip from this type of balloon.

Then, a few days later, strange radar blips are seen near the nation's head of government.

What is clearly missing from the RN inventory is a radar directed automatic cannon of the type commonly fitted to West European warships.

Chinook helicopters from 18 Squadron were deployed to assist with troop and load carrying, particularly for the building of radar stations.

Vosper Thornycroft's stealth corvette, would be difficult to identify by radar and other sensors.

The photographic data indicates a period over 100 years, while the radar data indicates a period of about 10 years.

The UH-60 ASE suite (Figure H-3) provides PW radar and decoying for radar directed threats.

We now know that cold clean Antarctic ice behaves as a low loss dielectric over a wide range of radar frequencies.

The paper discusses the possibility that horizontal advection combined with horizontal gradients in the plasma density can contribute to the radar echoes.

It also measured the radar emissivity, radar reflectivity, gravity and radio occultation data.

The planet became the intense emitter of radio waves - the total outputs from all TVs, cell-phones and radar transmissions.

Major improvements in concept, componentry and information exaction continue to make radar more capable in detecting and identifying targets.

There is map, fiend radar, treasure radar and fiend radar, treasure radar and fiend guide.

Personnel working with radar, X-ray equipment or near other sources of radiation wear radiation dosage film badges that detect their level of radiation.

It was rather foggy, I had a new-fangled gadget that I had made out of sheet metal to act as a radar reflector.

On lap seven Marshall had a moment on the approach to Radar and stopped before rejoining the fray.

Nothing has appeared on radar on a six mile sweep and a search of the harbor has also appeared fruitless.

A 10 foot high metal gantry on the roof would have mounted the radar array.

Navigation is state of the art with ring laser gyros, inertial reference systems GPS, doppler and radar altimeters.

And being below the radar, there's no way to share ideas between remote.. .

While optical data are best for land cover mapping, radar imagery is a good replacement in very cloudy areas.

The radar installation near the palace of Sennacherib was probably put there on purpose.

August The first airborne interception (AI) radar sets are fitted into 30 Royal Air Force Bristol Blenheim aircraft.

Disturbances of the western European ionosphere during the total solar eclipse of 11 august 1999 measured by a wide ionosonde and radar network.

We tend to ignore or discount our own personal radar about people and things that are happening around us.

Alex is eventually sent home for staying under the radar.