Radar

Quick meaning: Radar is a noun meaning (countable, figurative) A superior ability to detect something; an awareness, an intuition.

Meaning

(countable, figurative) A superior ability to detect something; an awareness, an intuition.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To use a radar apparatus (noun senses 1, 1.1, or 2) on (someone or something); to scan (someone or something) with, or as if with, radar.
2. (uncountable) In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
3. (uncountable, by extension) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a natural (for example, in an animal such as a bat) or human-made detection method based on the analysis of reflected signals other than radio waves, as light waves or sound waves; (countable) an instance of this.

Example Sentences

They were able to find the enemy fleet using radar.

Stanley: Geez, how'd ya know? / Happy: I got radar or something.

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

I don't think men are born on this planet. I think men are born on the planet Pluto and they have them molecularly disassembled and radar-ed to the earth.

Word Forms

• radars
• radaring
• radared

Synonyms for radar

Depending on context, synonyms include radiolocation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include radiolocation, monopulse, radio, centimetric, sonar, hub-and-spoke.

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