electrolocation

noun

Etymology

From electro- + location.

  1. borrowed from locatio
  2. prefixed as electrolocation — “electro + location

Definitions

  1. the ability of an animal to detect an object by its distortion of the animal's electric…

    the ability of an animal to detect an object by its distortion of the animal's electric field, as in the electric fishes such as the electric eel.

  2. the ability of a robot to locate an object by detecting changes in its electric field.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for electrolocation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA