How to Use accelerometer in a Sentence

accelerometer

noun

• The accelerometer means that any attempt to move the mine sets if off.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• For at least 10 hours each day, accelerometers recorded whether the child moved or was sedentary.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
• And because the system already has an accelerometer, it could be used to detect falls.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023
• These smart swim goggles count your laps, pace, and even strokes per lap using a built in accelerometer and gyroscope.
  — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• Each rover has two cameras, a thermometer, and an accelerometer.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2018
• An accelerometer was in place to track the forces experienced by the hardware while the truck was moving.
  — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
• The sensor could be worn, like an accelerometer in a smartwatch used to capture motion data.
  — Rachel A. Chasse, STAT, 6 Nov. 2019
• The participants wore an accelerometer, placed at their hip, for three or more days, for 10 or more hours at a time.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 2 Mar. 2023
• Also, there were only four legs, with two joints in each and two accelerometers on each leg; real spiders have eight legs and many more joints.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2025
• To work, the system has to have a large enough number of users willing to let Google use accelerometer data.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Apr. 2021
• The accelerometers used also couldn’t capture all types of movement, such as swimming.
  — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• Those options are now on the horizon with the invention of the world's smallest accelerometer.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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
• For those who don’t know, accelerometers are vibration sensors.
  — Tyler Jett, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• But the smoking gun came from an accelerometer clipped to the subjects’ waistbands, which measured the rise and fall of their center of mass.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2020
• Using an accelerometer, the system can also alert users if the car is bumped, broken into, or starts rolling for some reason.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2018
• The motor runs through a range of frequencies, and accelerometers attached to the body measure its response.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• Magnetic ride, now in its fourth generation, has added accelerometers at all four of the car’s corners.
  — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
• The app utilizes the phone accelerometers to generate a beat that syncs with its listeners’ footsteps.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024
• Each player wore an accelerometer in his helmet to capture the forces at play during practices and games during the season.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The watch features an accelerometer and a heart rate monitor, which sync up to your Garmin Connect app.
  — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 23 Dec. 2020
• The stream of data warns of heat exhaustion (via a thermometer) and bad running form (via accelerometers).
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
• Bolt’s gadgetry packs a light sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass and more, and its battery lasts for just over four hours of play.
  — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
• Shaking things up Smartphones come with accelerometers, small devices that enable them to sense changes in motion.
  — ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025
• The athletes wore helmets outfitted with accelerometers to track the number and force of hits during practices and games.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 7 Aug. 2019
• With the accelerometer data, the researchers determined the times of sleep onset and waking.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2021
• Depressed people, for instance, move around less, which can be tracked with a phone’s GPS and accelerometer.
  — Chelsea Leu, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• The iO relies on AI and a gyro sensor and accelerometer in the handle.
  — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
• The trackers included light sensors used to home in on the birds' locations, and an accelerometer to measure their movements.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• To track motion, the researchers added an accelerometer, the gadget in an iPhone that detects if the phone is tilted one way or another.
  — Carolyn Wilke, sacbee, 12 July 2017