echolocate

English

Etymology

From echo +‎ locate. Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944.

Verb

echolocate (third-person singular simple present echolocates, present participle echolocating, simple past and past participle echolocated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To locate by means of echolocation.

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