What is "pinging"

Usage examples of "pinging".

We can still hear the Natya pinging, nearing one-eight-six, and her blade count is now about fifteen knots, too.

The torpedo automatically went to continuous pinging, increasing to maximum speed as it homed in on its target like the remorseless robot it was.

Four helicopters were dropping sonobuoys in hope of reacquiring it, and a half-dozen sonars were pinging away, but so far it looked as though the submarine had evaded the angry escorts.

All three ships were pinging at the bottom, looking for a dead submarine.

The submarine dove to a thousand feet and cruised toward the precise midpoint between a pair of pinging buoys.

It was plotted anyway, as the submarine took nearly an hour to reach the second line of pinging buoys.

Drops of rain crashed through the screen onto the white wrought-iron table, pinging a warning.

The run-to-enable was the torpedo flight from the launching submarine to a point on its trajectory where it would arm the warhead and begin to start pinging active sonar, and to begin its snake-pattern wiggle to search for the target.

Her escorts were in a single broad line ahead of the battlecruiser, pinging away in the search for a submarine.

Outside the hull they could hear a high-pitched pinging that got louder, more frequent, more insistent.

The room went quiet again, only the sound of the pinging and torpedo screw could be heard.

The SHARKTOOTH, which looked up and forward to find the ice, was an active pinging sonar but faint to being nearly undetectable.

Pacino cut him off, wondering how Rapier could argue, with the pinging of the Magnum coming in louder every second.

The ship being tracked can tell how close the pinging platform is by the time between pulses, assuming the transmitter does not ping the second pulse until it receives a return ping from the first pulse.

The closer the pinging object gets to own ship, the shorter the interval between pings.