Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The science and technology of automatic measurement and transmission of data by wire, radio, or other means from remote sources, as from space vehicles, to receiving stations for recording and analysis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art of measuring distances by the use of telemeters.
- n. The art of recording at a distance the indications of meteorological and physical instruments.
Wiktionary
- n. applied sciences the science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science or process of making remote measurements and sending the data by radio; the use of a telemeter.
WordNet 3.0
- n. automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means
Etymologies
- tele- + -metry (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nigel: The video became important after we lost telemetry from the vehicle.”
“Gadgets for this already exist, although in some states like CA, GPS units are illegal (radio telemetry is OK, though ... go figure).”
“Byrne suggested that the telemetry from the orbiters should also be stored on magnetic tape in case it was needed again later.”
The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 7: Off to France!
“The telemetry is stated in plain language — in English," says Bauer.”
“As of this moment it looks like they got some telemetry from the spacecraft, just not what they expected.”
“So she called telemetry, and sure enough, they had some pamphlets, and I went upstairs to get them.”
“This is actually very easy to arrange: the Ring is simply the master node of a wireless network, and is able to send commands and receive telemetry from the other rings, including their locations and the spoken words of the people around them.”
“We've had an opportunity to isolate for you the precise moment when mission control first had a sense that there was a problem, the communication loss, the loss of data, the so-called telemetry on those computer screens.”
“It is called telemetry and the use of an instrument is necessary.”
“Once at Tobey, Harrigan, 87, wore a wireless heart monitor, called a telemetry unit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘telemetry’.
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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tele-, tel-
of or at a distance; operating over a distance; relating to television; done over the telephone
telemarketing, telekinesis, telemetry, televangelist, telex, telephone, telescope, telescopic, telecast, telegraph, telegraphic, television and 1 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
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tomax's Words
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envelopingshadow's Words
denouement, kitsch, acrimonious, macabre, anachronism, atavism, ennui, parse, lugubrious, holism, brusque, commiserate and 164 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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Objects and Things
anteroom, flagon, cocotte, ambry, cloche, pate, vespiary, fricassee, carousal, psoas, tome, aperture and 38 more...
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action
braise, tamp, arc, telemetry, doff, dote, atone, covet, defuse, steep, curb, dip and 79 more...
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inacrateofnectarines
sounds as good as it means
dreamscape, wasteland, camber, eldritch, fiasco, shroud, verisimilitude, aubergine, attenuate, lavalier, calibrate, instantiate and 84 more...
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Words I starred in Google Dictionary
Google Dictionary's star feature went away though so now I am here. If you did the same this URL might be helpful: http://www.google.com/dictiona...
affectation, aggrandize, anachronism, anathema, annex, anecdote, anesthetize, antediluvian, aphorism, apropos, arboretum, asinine and 87 more...
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word set 5
sapidity, devolved, mincingly, zootechnics, eschatology, tribulations, peccadillo, anorgasmia, hermaphrodite, serial monogamy, freethinker, sorceress and 83 more...
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List (ret'd)
The big list
Tweets
Looking for tweets for telemetry.
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