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Echolocation vs Batsqueak - What's the difference?

echolocation | batsqueak |

As nouns the difference between echolocation and batsqueak

is that echolocation is the use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar while batsqueak is the ultrasonic noise emitted by a bat, especially as used for echolocation.

echolocation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

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    batsqueak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The ultrasonic noise emitted by a bat, especially as used for echolocation.
  • A faint echo (of something); a tiny pulse, a slight wave (of feeling, emotion etc.).
  • * 2002 , Melveena McKendrick, "Men Behaving Badly", Identities in Crisis , Reichenberger 2002, p. 220:
    • Gómez Arias, like don Álvaro, dies without our feeling a batsqueak of regret because neither is given any redeeming features.
  • * 2005 , Sue Prideaux, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream , Yale 2007, p. 37:
    • The first infernal batsqueak of insanity was making itself heard in a new generation.