microwave radar meaning

• Noun: microwave radar  'mIkrow`weyv 'reydaa(r)
  1. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects
     - radar, radio detection and ranging, radiolocation

  Derived forms: microwave radars

  Type of: measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system

  Encyclopedia: Microwave radar

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Examples

1. the development of microwave radar during the world war ii also had immense consequences for solid-state physics.
2. FINDER uses microwave radar to detect breathing and pulses.
3. From 1941 1945, many different microwave radar types were developed in America.
4. The USAAF outfitted its first two microwave radar equipped B-24s in September 1942.
5. They created a radical new design, the cavity magnetron, that made microwave radar possible.