sound ranging

noun

a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.

sound ranging

the determination of the location of a source of sound waves by measuring the time lapse between their transmission and their reception at microphones situated at three or more known positions

Sound ranging was an important means of locating the positions and calibers of enemy guns.

This is the last record by sound ranging of artillery activity on the American front near the River Moselle.

The development and the production of searchlights and sound-ranging apparatus remained in the hands of the Engineer Corps.

An American instrument with the Army spotted 117 German gun positions in a single day by surface sound ranging.

In this country we had two experimental stations for the development of sound-ranging apparatus.

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