accelerometer
noun
Examples of accelerometer in a Sentence
Kristen Fischer, Health, 12 Mar. 2024
And an attack presented in 2020 shows how accelerometers can recognize speech and reconstruct the corresponding audio signals.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
Research from 2019 showed how monitoring a device accelerometer and gyroscope output can also lead to the accurate guessing of PINS entered.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
For example, pacemaker batteries contain accelerometers like those used in pedometers to detect if a person is in motion.
—Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
These watches often have accelerometers or blood pressure monitors and so on in them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
The body housed an onboard accelerometer to measure impact deceleration as well as a ferromagnetic ball so that the impactor could be dropped from varying heights via an electromagnet.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
Another great feature in the bundle is its Siri Remote, complete with Bluetooth 4.0, an IR transmitter, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope.
—Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2022
Notably, these watches had accelerometers built in — a device that tracks the speed of the wearer's movement.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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Word History
borrowed from French accéléromètre, from accélérer "to accelerate" (borrowed from Latin accelerāre) + -o- -o- + -mètre -meter
1875, in the meaning defined above
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