A measuring, transmitting, and receiving device used in telemetry.
To measure, transmit, and receive (data) automatically from a distant source, as from a spacecraft or an electric power grid.
Any device for transmitting measurements of physical phenomena, as temperature, radiation, etc., to a distant recorder or observer: used in satellites, spacecraft, etc.
An instrument for determining the distance to a remote object; range finder.
To transmit by telemeter.
Origin of telemeter
- tele- +"Ž -meter from French tÃ©lÃ©mÃ¨tre (“device used for measuring distance") coined by Selligue, possibly from a blend of tÃ©lescope and micromÃ¨tre.