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How to pronounce “radar”

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Pronunciation guide for radar

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of radar with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheetThat means that I use radar to study glaciers and ice sheets.
Definition summary: (uncountable) In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.

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How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet

That means that I use radar to study glaciers and ice sheets.

[Noun]
(uncountable) In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of this method.
(uncountable, by extension) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a natural (for example, in an animal such as a bat) or human-made detection method based on the analysis of reflected signals other than radio waves, as light waves or sound waves; (countable) an instance of this.
(countable, figurative) A superior ability to detect something; an awareness, an intuition.
[Verb]
(transitive) To use a radar apparatus (noun noun sense 1, noun sense 1.1, or noun sense 2) on (someone or something); to scan (someone or something) with, or as if with, radar.