radar gun
Americannoun
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A usually hand-held device that measures the velocity of a moving object by sending out a continuous radio wave and measuring the frequency of reflected waves.
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See more at Doppler effect
Example Sentences
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He acknowledges he brought a radar gun to the rink to clock her speed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
He wasn’t consistently hitting 100 mph on the radar gun or dotting the strike zone with his typically pristine command.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025
Per the stadium radar gun, his fastball reached 95 mph.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2024
Mizuhara usually recorded Ohtani’s throwing sessions on his phone or tracked his data with a pocket radar gun.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
Just as he did this the warning light on his radar gun sight blinked on, indicating that something solid was in front of him—he wasn't photographing a sundog, hallucination, or refracted light.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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