echolocation

/ek-oh-loh-key-shuhn/US // ˌɛk oʊ loʊˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌɛkəʊləʊˈkeɪʃən) //

回声定位,回声定位法,回音定位,超声定位

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the general method of locating objects by determining the time for an echo to return and the direction from which it returns, as by radar or sonar.
- : Zoology. the sonarlike system used by dolphins, bats, and other animals to detect and locate objects by emitting usually high-pitched sounds that reflect off the object and return to the animal's ears or other sensory receptors.

In the late 1960s, Payne was a senior scientist at the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior, studying animal echolocation.
More than a thousand species use echolocation, but after millions of years of evolution, bats’ brains are especially well optimized for navigation.
It has an echolocation system through which it finds its way.
Many early findings about echolocation — which was discovered in the 1950s — still ring true, Boublil says.