DOVAP
væp noun
Electronics. a system for plotting the trajectory of a missile or other rapidly moving long-range object by means of the Doppler effect exhibited by radio waves bounced off the object.
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| —n | |
| a tracking system for determining the position and velocity of spacecraft, missiles, etc, based on the Doppler effect | |
| [C20: from Do(ppler) v(elocity) a(nd) p(osition)] | |
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