echo sounding vs location

echo sounding and location both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
echo sounding	Yes	No	No	No
location	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, location is a hypernym of echo sounding; that is, location is a word with a broader meaning than echo sounding:

echo sounding: determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it
location: a determination of the place where something is

Other hypernyms of echo sounding include fix, localisation, localization, locating.

echo sounding (noun)	location (noun)
determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it	a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space
	a determination of the place where something is
	the act of putting something in a certain place
	a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made