🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

雷达站

Pronunciation / Transliteration: léidá zhàn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Radar site/ˈreɪ.dɑːr saɪt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这座雷达站负责监视周边空域。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A designated location equipped with radar transmitters and receivers used for detecting aircraft, ships, or weather formations.

    "The military upgraded the coastal radar site to improve early warning capabilities."
  2. 2

    A land area utilized for housing stationary radar tracking and monitoring arrays.

    "Technicians travelled to the remote mountain radar site for scheduled maintenance."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'radar', an acronym coined during World War II (1940) from 'radio detection and ranging', with 'site', derived from the Latin 'situs' meaning place or position. Initially used in military contexts during the mid-20th century to designate fixed installations housing radio detection equipment, it has expanded to include meteorological and aviation tracking locations.

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