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单词 echo-sounding
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echo-soundingn.

Etymology: < echo n. + sounding n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈecho-sounding.
The action or process of sounding or ascertaining the depth of water or of an object below a ship by meauring the time taken for a transmitted sound-signal to return as an echo. Also in extended uses, e.g. of the flight of bats. Also attributive or as adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > instrument for detection > [noun] > location by echo
echo-sounding1923
echolocation1944
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > sounding depth
sounding1336
echo-sounding1923
1923 Hydrographic Rev. 1 72 (title) Echo Sounding. Test carried out by the U.S.S. ‘Stewart’ 20th to 29th June 1922.
1928 Marine Observer June 115/2 This vessel is fitted with the Admiralty Echo Sounding machine.., a wonderful aid to navigation, as one is able to get soundings up to 135 fathoms with accuracy.
1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 343 A very efficient ‘height over the ground’ indicator is installed in the ‘Graf Zeppelin’. This is the ‘Behm’ echo sounding device.
1947 Times 3 Sept. 5/6 Thanks to echo-sounding, one of the most marvellous inventions of our days, belief in the perfect smoothness of the deep-sea bottom has been much revised, especially in regard to the Atlantic.
1958 Observer 3 Aug. 5/4 Scientists at Harvard University have been studying the ‘echo-sounding’ behaviour of bats.
1968 Times 18 Oct. 16/7 By a combination of echo-sounding from the air and rapid sampling it was found possible to determine in only 20 minutes the main features of any lake.

Derivatives

echo-sound v. and n. [as a back-formation]
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > instrument for detection > of instrument, etc.: detect [verb (transitive)] > locate or track
radiolocate1941
echolocate1944
to lock on to ——1945
radar-track1948
acquire1953
echo-sound1953
1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World vi. 63 We were passing the same area in the research ship Élie Monnier when the echo-sound tape recorded another massive object on the floor.
1959 A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries iii. 51 His having previously echo-sounded herring shoals in the same area.
echo-sounder n. a device used for this purpose.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > instrument for detection > [noun] > location by echo > device for
echo-sounder1927
Asdic1939
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > depth-finder
depth recorder1911
depth finder1923
Fathometer1925
echo-sounder1927
echometer1937
1927 S. H. Long Navigational Wireless xi. 148 Admiralty Type Echo Sounder. A second type of echo depth sounder..developed by the Admiralty Research Department.
1935 Nature 1 June 898/1 For navigation the echo sounder was employed originally to delineate the 100 fathom line.
1936 Discovery Dec. 388/1 The electrical echo-sounder is to be used for the detection of shoals of fish.
1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World x. 97 Our echo sounder located the wreck of a French submarine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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