TELEMETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telemetry mean? 

• TELEMETRY (noun)
  The noun TELEMETRY has 1 sense:

1. automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means

  Familiarity information: TELEMETRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEMETRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("telemetry" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

 Context examples 

Telemetry received during the plunge indicates that, as expected, Cassini entered Saturn's atmosphere with its thrusters firing to maintain stability, as it sent back a unique final set of science observations.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

The mission objectives of the two small MarCOs which relayed InSight's telemetry was completed after their Martian flyby.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

The telemetry and tracking data were received by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna station in Canberra, Australia.

(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)