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Dop'pler ra'dar



Electronics.
a radar tracking system that determines the velocity of a moving object by measuring the Doppler shift of the frequency of a radar signal reflected by the object. Cf. DOVAP.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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