ACOUSTIC BUOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acoustic buoy mean? 

• ACOUSTIC BUOY (noun)
  The noun ACOUSTIC BUOY has 1 sense:

1. a buoy that can be heard (at night)

  Familiarity information: ACOUSTIC BUOY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACOUSTIC BUOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A buoy that can be heard (at night)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("acoustic buoy" is a kind of...):

buoy (bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acoustic buoy"):

bell buoy; gong buoy (a buoy with a bell on it)

whistle buoy; whistling buoy (a buoy that makes a whistling noise)