How to Use accelerometer in a Sentence

accelerometer

noun

• The iO relies on AI and a gyro sensor and accelerometer in the handle.
  — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
• The researchers used a high-speed camera to record Ms. Gregg running, and an accelerometer was attached to the knots to measure the forces on her feet.
  — Christopher Mele, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• For at least 10 hours each day, accelerometers recorded whether the child moved or was sedentary.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The new Apple Watch uses a high-g-force accelerometer that can detect up to 256 g's of impact.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 10 Sep. 2022
• Those options are now on the horizon with the invention of the world's smallest accelerometer.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 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 app uses two of the smartphone’s sensors in ways they were not intended: the microphone and the accelerometer.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 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
• Depressed people, for instance, move around less, which can be tracked with a phone’s GPS and accelerometer.
  — Chelsea Leu, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• And because the system already has an accelerometer, it could be used to detect falls.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023
• This taps into the accelerometer and gyroscope of the AirPods and the device it is connected to.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 22 June 2020
• 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
• The motor runs through a range of frequencies, and accelerometers attached to the body measure its response.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• 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
• An accelerometer helps trigger the camera on garbage day.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
• With the accelerometer data, the researchers determined the times of sleep onset and waking.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2021
• The sitting study borrowed 7,985 of those participants, who all agreed to wear the accelerometers.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2017
• The sensor could be worn, like an accelerometer in a smartwatch used to capture motion data.
  — Rachel A. Chasse, STAT, 6 Nov. 2019
• The CPOD also contains three accelerometers that record the various forces applied to the device.
  — Amit Asaravala, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2004
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That’s all your accelerometer, and it can also determine whether your body is moving around.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
• The stream of data warns of heat exhaustion (via a thermometer) and bad running form (via accelerometers).
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
• For the study on wild boars, Mortlock’s colleagues captured a bunch of pigs in Europe and put collars around their necks fitted with devices called accelerometers.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 2 June 2024
• Along with ovulation and sleep stage tracking, the new watch will be able to detect sleep apnea using an accelerometer to identify breathing disturbances.
  — Jenn Brice, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2024
• Participants wore an accelerometer for 10 days to measure sleep duration, which was classified into short (less than seven hours), optimal (seven to less than nine hours), or long (nine hours or more).
  — New Atlas, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024