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RADIOLOCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiolocate mean? 

RADIOLOCATE (verb)
  The verb RADIOLOCATE has 1 sense:

1. locate by means of radarplay

  Familiarity information: RADIOLOCATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RADIOLOCATE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Locate by means of radar

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The pilot managed to radiolocate the lost aircraft

Hypernyms (to "radiolocate" is one way to...):

locate; situate (determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

radiolocation (measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects)


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