multilateration
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multilateration (uncountable)
The process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location
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Decca was a hyperbolic low frequency radio navigation system (also known as multilateration ) that was first deployed during World War II when the Allied forces needed a system which could be used to achieve accurate landings.
Instead, radio navigation systems adopted the multilateration concept. which is based on the difference in times (or phase) instead of the absolute time.
Instead, several spacecraft can locate the burst through triangulation (or, more specifically, multilateration ).