Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An electrical instrument for detecting or monitoring sound under water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for detecting the flow of water in a pipe (thus locating waste) by the sounds produced in a microphone.
- n. An instrument used in auscultation whereby sounds are conveyed through a column of water.
Wiktionary
- n. a transducer that converts underwater sound waves into electrical signals, rather like a microphone
Examples
“During some types of gynaecological examination, researchers have inserted a tiny microphone, called a hydrophone, into the uterus, enabling them to hear what the foetus can hear.”
“They used what's called a hydrophone to eventually get Humphrey out of that area.”
“A underwater "hydrophone" recorded the sound, and it was synched with the video.”
Deep, Fiery Undersea Volcano Captured on Video | Universe Today
“The captain of our boat put a hydrophone in the water, and there were speakers on the deck.”
“Fish tagged with tiny transmitters emit a special signal when they pass by one of the hydrophone receivers.”
“Down below, Tomonori Akamatsu from Japan was listening for an audio trace with hydrophone omnidirectional equipment.”
“Late that afternoon the hydrophone operator aboard U-331, submerged off Alexandria, picked up the sound of turning screws.”
“I suspect the Russians have hydrophone networks on the sea floor near their coasts similar to our SOSUS and can detect/bomb an attack sub in those waters.”
“The hydrophone ‘listened’ for the sounds of volcanic activity.”
Scientists Studying Sea Creatures Living On Violent Undersea Volcano | Impact Lab
“Part of the evidence that the volcano is in a constant state of eruption comes from an underwater microphone – or hydrophone – that was deployed a year ago at NW Rota-1 by OSU geologist Bob Dziak.”
Scientists Studying Sea Creatures Living On Violent Undersea Volcano | Impact Lab
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hydrophone’.
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phono-, phon-, -phony
relating to sound
phonograph, phonics, phonology, telephony, phoneme, phone, telephone, phonautograph, phonetic, phonebook, phonography, phonolite and 107 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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