omnidirectional hydrophone
omnidirectional hydrophone
[¦äm·nə·di′rek·shən·əl ′hī·drə‚fōn] (engineering acoustics)
A hydrophone whose response is fundamentally independent of the incident sound wave's angle of arrival.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.