| segmented aperture-synthetic aperture radar [`seg´ment·ǝd ¦ap·ǝ·chǝr sin`thed·ik ¦ap·ǝ·chǝr `rā´där] ENGINEERING An enhancement of synthetic aperture radar that overcomes restrictions on the effective length of the receiving antenna by using a receiving antenna array composed of a set of contiguous subarrays and employing signal processing to provide the proper phase corrections for each subarray. Abbreviated SASAR. |