radar
noun
a device for determining the presence and location of an object by measuring the time for the echo of a radio wave to return from it and the direction from which it returns.
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Israel’s antiradar missile, the Harpy, loiters in the sky until an enemy radar is turned on.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014