apparatus for detection underwater, 1946, from first letters of "sound navigation ranging," on pattern of radar.
sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging
somnolent
Somnus
son
son of a bitch
sonant
sonar
sonata
sonatina
sone
song
song-bird
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