telemetry

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -metry.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɪˈlɛm.ɪ.tɹi/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /təˈlɛm.əˌtɹi/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /təˈlem.ə.tɹi/

Noun

telemetry (countable and uncountable, plural telemetries)

1. (space flight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.
   • 2022 April 20, Alex Hynes, “Making our railway safer”, in RAIL, number 955, page 27:

     We have also installed river level monitors and scour telemetry on more than 25 bridges across our network, and over the next two years we will continue to increase the number of locations fitted with these technologies.

Derived terms

• radio telemetry
• telemetric

Translations

the science, and associated technology, of automatic recording

• Czech: telemetrie f
• Dutch: telemetrie (nl) f
• Finnish: telemetria
• French: télémétrie (fr) f
• German: Telemetrie (de) f
• Greek: τηλεμετρία (el) f (tilemetría)
• Irish: teiliméadracht f
• Italian: telemetria (it) f
• Norwegian: telemetri m
• Polish: telemetria (pl) f
• Romanian: telemetrie (ro) f
• Russian: телеметрия (ru) (telemetrija)
• Spanish: telemetría f
• Swedish: telemetri (sv) c
• Turkish: telemetri (tr)

References

• “telemetry”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.