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lidar

French, noun\li.daʁ\

lidar is a French masculine noun meaning “lidar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Technique de mesure à distance fondée sur l’analyse des propriétés d’un faisceau de lumière renvoyé par la…”.

What does lidar mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinelidar

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Technique de mesure à distance fondée sur l’analyse des propriétés d’un faisceau de lumière renvoyé par la cible à son émetteur. 2. Appareil de prise de vue en trois dimensions, en utilisant la technique lidar.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of lidar

  • lidars plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce lidar?

  • \li.daʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is lidar in French?

lidar appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).