Determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it

Usage examples of echolocation.

This is called echolocation, and we should not be surprised that bats have such large ears in relation to their overall size.

It is by echolocation that dolphins can detect the presence of food and move toward it unerringly even in murky water and at night, when the sense of sight is inadequate.

The grendel still remained out of sight farther up the maze of passages, but the buzz of its echolocation filled the back of her head with a fuzzy, scratchy feeling.

The grendels hunted by echolocation, but they were also sensitive to light and perhaps even heat.

If I were to give you an echolocation device, you would develop in part a bat-brain.

Using information gathered by satellites, balloon-borne instruments and, most of all, by a device of recent concoction called an echolocation quantifier, we believe we have traced the radio signals to their source.

Guild, and echolocation and grammatisation was undertaken by Outland contractors at Hodder and Penguin.

She knew that each suspiration was comprised of hundreds of high blats, the barely audible aspect of her echolocation.

The long, tufted ears reminded him of a bat's ears, and he suspected he'd mined the creature's voice box when he slit its throat, so there was no way to confirm its ability to use echolocation like a bat.