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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Detection of distant objects, such as ships or aircraft, by radar.

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  • noun Any method of detecting and locating distant objects using microwave radiation; especially radar

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  • noun measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects

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Examples

  • If you look at the US Frequency Allocation Chart, you will see that ‘radiolocation’ and ‘amateur’ allocations often share the same space, or adjacent space, in the UHF and microwave regions 300 MHz to 30 GHz.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Are Smartphone Apps That Record Police Speed Traps “Radar Detectors”? 2009

  • Britain all became leaders in the development of radiolocation in their home countries and Sir Robert Watson-Watt has stated that, but for Appleton's scientific work, radar would have come too late to have been of decisive use in the Battle of Britain.

    Edward V. Appleton - Biography 1964

  • Aviation, radiolocation and television; light metals and plastics; prefabrication and dehydration; these are but the precursors of a new age which will add to the world's wealth and welfare as coal and steel and the steam engine and electricity and internal combustion added to it in the past.

    The I.L.O. Looks Forward 1944

  • It is a leading supplier of solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, as well as secure communications ...

    The Gadgeteer 2010

  • It is a leading supplier of solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, as well as secure communications ...

    The Gadgeteer 2010

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  • The proposed MBAN frequencies are currently used by several private and public sector organizations for aeronautical mobile telemetry and federal radiolocation tasks, and by amateur radio users.

    Latest from Computerworld Lucas Mearian 2010

  • It is a leading supplier of solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, as well as secure communications ...

    The Gadgeteer 2010

  • It is a leading supplier of solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, as well as secure communications.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox Cetecom GmbH 2010

  • It is a leading supplier of solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, as well as secure communications ...

    The Gadgeteer 2010

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