Echolocation vs Echolocate - What's the difference?
echolocation | echolocate |
The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar.
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As a noun echolocation
is the use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar.As a verb echolocate is
to locate by means of echolocation.echolocation
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(en noun)William E. Conner
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.}}
