单词 | telemetry |
释义 | telemetryn. 1. The science or practice of indirectly measuring the distance between an observer and an object by any of various methods. Now rare.Applications include surveying and military operations. The method of ascertaining distance may involve trigonometry, optics, calculation from the speed of sound, or laser technology. ΚΠ 1865 Mechanics' Mag. 8 Dec. 360/1 The following remarks on methods of naval telemetry may prove acceptable. 1880 L. d'A. Jackson Aid Surv.-pract. i. 98 Telemetry possesses great advantages over chaining in reducing monotonous labour with at least an equal amount of precision. 1900 A. T. Walmisley Field Work & Instruments xvii. 214 Telemetry, or the optical measurement of distances, is apparently a simple matter, and might be more adopted by surveyors if it were better known. 1920 A. L. Higgins Field Man. v. 521 Telemetry is almost confined to military and naval operations as ‘range finding’. 1982 Resources for 21st Cent.: Proc. Internat. Centennial Symp. U.S. Geol. Surv., 1979 98 Professor Ternryd, you talked about tacheometry and telemetry and showed us the latest developments in instrumentation and techniques. 2015 tr. P. Balcou et al. in F. Bretenaker & N. Treps Laser ii. 45 Laser light..is also exploited to measure distance in the field of telemetry. 2. a. The science or practice of obtaining physical measurements or other data at one place and transmitting them (chiefly by means of electrical signals or, in later use, radio waves) to another place for display or recording. Also: the transmission of such data by the device or equipment which obtains them. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > measurement carried out remotely telemetry1884 telemetering1925 society > communication > telecommunication > telemetry > [noun] telemetry1884 telemetering1925 the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > measurement carried out remotely > measurements obtained telemetry1884 1884 Electrician & Electr. Engineer (U.S.) Dec. 266/1 (title) Telemetry. By D. W. Edgecomb. This very appropriate term has been lately applied to that branch of electrical science which has to do with the indication and recording of variable physical forces. 1885 Electrician 9 May 525/1 Telemetry has been practically applied in America..the temperature registrations being exceedingly accurate. 1957 Economist 12 Oct. 149 (advt.) Mullard products are used in almost every electronic application—from radar to radio, from telemetry to television. 1979 Sunday 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. 2009 A. J. Read in W. F. Perrin et al. Encycl. Marine Mammals (ed. 2) 1153/1 The field of telemetry includes a number of research approaches. b. Equipment or instrumentation used for obtaining, transmitting, displaying, or recording data by telemetry (sense 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > measuring at distance from recording telometer1860 telemeter1929 telemetry1952 1952 New Mexican (Santa Fe) 17 Mar. 3/4 On many projects the telemetry has never been known to fail. 1958 Engineering 28 Feb. 263/3 Instrumentation and telemetry in the satellite are designed to gather and transmit four types of information. 1962 S. Carpenter in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 160 Everyone keeps one eye on the telemetry to see how the capsule responds. 2010 Symphonya 1 31 Vending machines..equipped with telemetry can transmit sales and inventory data to a route truck so that the driver knows exactly what products to bring in for restocking. c. Data obtained using telemetry (sense 2a). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telemetry > [noun] > information telemetry1956 1956 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Tribune 25 July 11/5 The Army fired a Corporal rocket ‘beyond the upper atmosphere’ yesterday... Telemetry of value in studies of very great heights was recorded at ground stations. 1962 Flight Internat. 82 239/2 These receiving stations have been set up..for receiving telemetry from future topside-sounder satellites. 1979 F. Pohl Jem i. 8 He had made himself one of the..top experts in reading the telemetry from a tachyon-transmitter probe. 2007 Wired June 148/1 They spread printouts of Falcon's telemetry out on the floor of the plane and pored over them on their hands and knees. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2a), as telemetry data, telemetry signal, telemetry system, telemetry transmitter, telemetry unit, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telemetry > [adjective] telemetry1948 1948 L. J. Neelands & W. Hausz in Radio News Jan. 20/2 Such structural measurements..require faster response rates than 20 cycles. These are best handled by other telemetry systems. 1953 Monsanto Mag. July 3 A typical down range station is a little electronic city set up to track missiles, predict weather, receive telemetry signals from missiles. 1958 Times 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. 1962 S. Carpenter in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 53 Each time the capsule performs an important function it automatically sends a telemetry report to this effect down to earth. 1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 214/2 The latest cable has 65 cores plus telemetry circuits. 1984 K. H. Belland & M. A. Wells Clin. Nursing Procedures (1986) iv. 185/2 Instruct the patient to avoid getting the telemetry unit wet. 1998 D. Obradović & P. Lonsdale Public Water Supply i. 28 The telemetry system could be very large, collecting thousands of signals. 2002 B. Bova Rock Rats (2003) 283 Nobody knows where he's gone... He's not sending out a tracking beacon. He's not even sending telemetry data. 2015 Register-Herald (Beckley, W. Va.) (Nexis) 10 June (State & Regional News section) Messer said the telemetry transmitter sent out ‘pings’ which showed balloon altitude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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