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n. A system for determining the position of vessels lost at sea by means of explosive sounds.

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Sofar

Sofar may refer to:

  • Sofar bomb (SOund Fixing And Ranging bomb), a long-range position-fixing system that uses explosive sounds in the deep sound channel of the ocean
  • SOFAR channel (SOund Fixing And Ranging channel), a horizontal layer of water in the ocean centered on the depth at which the speed of sound is minimum

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Kurt Sofar, the youngest member of the team, squatted in front of them.

Eliza Burt Gamble, an American lady anthropologist: The beautiful coloring of male birds and fishes, and the various appendages acquired by males throughout the various orders below man, and which, sofar as they themselves are concerned, serve no other useful purpose than to aid them in securing the favours of the females, have by the latter been turned to account in the processes of reproduction.

Harvey sofar forgetting himself at times as to let his voice rise in temperamental disagreement.