# Echolocation

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**Echolocation** is the use of [sound](/source/Sound) as a form of navigation.

## Navigation using sound

- [Acoustic location](/source/Acoustic_location), the general use of sound to locate objects. - [Animal echolocation](/source/Animal_echolocation), non-human animals emitting [sound waves](/source/Sound_waves) and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate. - [Human echolocation](/source/Human_echolocation), the use of sound by people to navigate. - [Sound localization](/source/Sound_localization), biological process of locating a sound. - [Sonar](/source/Sonar) (**so**und **n**avigation **a**nd **r**anging), the technology that uses sound on water or underwater, to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines. - [Echo sounding](/source/Echo_sounding), listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure the distance to the bottom of the sea, a special case of Sonar. - [Medical ultrasonography](/source/Medical_ultrasonography), the use of ultrasound echoes to look inside the body.

## Other

- [*Echolocation* (album)](/source/Echolocation_(album)), a 2001 album by Fruit Bats
- *Echolocation*, a 2017 album by [Gone Is Gone](/source/Gone_Is_Gone)

## See also

- [Radar](/source/Radar), locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted radio waves
- [Lidar](/source/Lidar), locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted laser beams
- *[Time to Echolocate](/source/Time_to_Echolocate)*, a 2005 album by The Ebb and Flow

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