DOVAP

DOVAP
/doh"vap/, n.
Electronics. a system for plotting the trajectory of a missile or other rapidly moving long-range object by means of the Doppler effect exhibited by radio waves bounced off the object. Cf. Doppler radar.
[Do(ppler) V(elocity) a(nd) P(osition)]

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