sonarlike
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sonarlike (comparative more sonarlike, superlative most sonarlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of sonar.
- 2008 February 14, Kenneth Chang, “Primitive Bats Took to the Wing, but They Didn’t Have That Ping”, in New York Times[1]:
- They can fly — the only mammals that can — and most also possess the sonarlike ability to locate objects, like the insects they want to eat, by emitting high-pitched sonic pulses and then triangulating the echoes bouncing back to their oversize ears.