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RADIOLOCATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does radiolocate mean?
• RADIOLOCATE (verb)
The verb RADIOLOCATE has 1 sense:
1. locate by means of radar
Familiarity information: RADIOLOCATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Locate by means of radar
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
The pilot managed to radiolocate the lost aircraft
Hypernyms (to "radiolocate" is one way to...):
locate; situate (determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
radiolocation (measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects)
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