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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The Brewers took him in the second round of the 2022 draft, and the radar gun only kept ticking up from there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
He acknowledges he brought a radar gun to the rink to clock her speed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Coming off his second career Tommy John surgery this year, Ohtani immediately lit up the radar gun with 100-mph fastballs and amassed gaudy strikeout totals with a devastating sweeper.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025
The television broadcast radar gun reading drew gasps.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 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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