hydrophone

noun

hy·​dro·​phone ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn How to pronounce hydrophone (audio)
: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water

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To carefully record any sounds made, the team transferred the sharks to individual tanks equipped with underwater microphones or hydrophones. Julianna Bragg, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025 To monitor and track these baleen whales, scientists deploy underwater microphones called hydrophones. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025 One popular post featured a drone image of a polar bear taken during the hydrophone mission. Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024 This past summer, they were trained to deploy hydrophones to record baseline underwater noise in key beluga whale and narwhal habitats, as shipping activity is expected to increase in the coming years due to ice melt. Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hydrophone

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First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hydrophone was in 1860

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“Hydrophone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hydrophone. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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hydrophone

noun
hy·​dro·​phone ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn How to pronounce hydrophone (audio)
: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water

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