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telemetry|tɪ-, tɛˈlɛmɪtrɪ|
[f. tele- + -metry.]
1. a. The process or practice of obtaining measurements in one place and relaying them for recording or display to a point at a distance; the transmission of measurements by the apparatus making them.
1885Electrician 9 May 525/1 Telemetry has been practically applied in America..the temperature registrations being exceedingly accurate. 1957Economist 12 Oct. 149 (Advt.), Mullard products are used in almost every electronic application—from radar to radio, from telemetry to television. 1967Technology Week 20 Feb. 10/3 Orbital telemetry indicated that the capsule battery should have sufficient charge to operate the radio beacon and flashing light that serve as recovery aids. 1979Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 7 Jan. 46/5 Occasionally pilots do become disorientated and so a system called air-to-ground telemetry was introduced... Data about the spinning aircraft is transmitted to the ground where another pilot can monitor information and advise the pilot flying how to recover.
b. Apparatus used for telemetry (sense a above).
1958Engineering 28 Feb. 263/3 Instrumentation and telemetry in the satellite are designed to gather and transmit four types of information. 1962S. Carpenter in Into Orbit 160 Everyone keeps one eye on the telemetry to see how the capsule responds.
c. Telemetered information.
1962Flight Internat. LXXXII. 239/2 These receiving stations have been set up..for receiving telemetry from future topside-sounder satellites. 1979F. Pohl Jem i. 8 He had made himself one of the..top experts in reading the telemetry from a tachyon-transmitter probe. 1982Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 28/5 An American spy..gave the Russians details of an NSA satellite system ‘rhyolite’, which monitored the telemetry of Soviet missile tests.
2. attrib.
1953[see down-range, downrange adv.]. 1958Times 10 Oct. 12/7 Telemetry codes provided from the third Russian satellite are expected to permit an analysis of tape recordings made of the sputnik's transmitters. 1962S. Carpenter in Into Orbit 53 Each time the capsule performs an important function it automatically sends a telemetry report to this effect down to earth. 1976Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 214/2 The latest cable has 65 cores plus telemetry circuits. 1978R. V. Jones Most Secret War xxxviii. 347 Dr. Steinhoff, Head of the Telemetry Department..escaped in his air-raid shelter. |