hydrophone

noun

hy·dro·phone ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn

: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water

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Along its length were strung a system of hydrophones and other sensors. —

David Szondy, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024 Faraway hydrophones then picked up the sound and mistook its place of origin. —

Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024 Ringing the ‘dinner bell’ Between 2022 and 2023, at least eight male elephant seals, ages four to seven, were seen on camera and detected by hydrophones at Ocean Network Canada’s subsea cabled observatory NEPTUNE. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024 Researchers are working with hydrophones and robotic fish to make contact in a seven-square-mile stretch of the Caribbean, off the coast of Dominica. —

T. Nelson Thompson, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hydrophone