accelerometer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.

Latin celer

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin celerō

Latin accelerō

Latin accelerātuslbor.

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Latin accelerō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin accelerātiōder.

English accelerationbf.

English accelerate

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Latin -o-bor.

English -o-

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Hellenic *-tron

Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)

Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.

English -meter

English accelerometer

From accelerate + -o- + -meter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ækˌsɛl.əˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, [ækˌsɛl.əˈɹɑ.mə.ɾɚ], /ɪkˌsɛl.əˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, [ɪkˌsɛl.əˈɹɑ.mə.ɾɚ]

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Noun

accelerometer (plural accelerometers)

1. An instrument for measuring acceleration.

   Hypernym: instrument

   Coordinate terms: velocimeter; speedometer; tachometer

2. An instrument made for detecting and measuring vibrations.

   Hypernym: instrument

   Near-synonym: vibrometer

   • 2022 March 23, “Network News: Hitachi on-train track monitoring trial expands to Scottish routes”, in RAIL, number 953, page 13:

     Working with NR, ScotRail and Porterbrook, Perpetuum has fitted sensors with gyroscopes and accelerometers to trains that are already in passenger service.

Hyponyms

• microaccelerometer
• piezoaccelerometer

Derived terms

• microaccelerometer
• piezoaccelerometer

Translations

instrument for measuring acceleration

• Afrikaans: versnellingsmeter
• Catalan: acceleròmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加速度計 / 加速度计 (zh) (jiāsùdùjì)

• Dutch: versnellingsmeter (nl) m
• Estonian: kiirendusandur
• Finnish: kiihtyvyysmittari, kiihtyvyysanturi, akselerometri
• French: accéléromètre (fr)
• Galician: acelerómetro m
• Georgian: აქსელერომეტრი (akseleromeṭri)
• German: Beschleunigungssensor m, Beschleunigungsmesser m
• Greek: επιταχυνσιόμετρο (el) n (epitachynsiómetro)
• Hindi: त्वरणमापी (tvaraṇmāpī)
• Indonesian: akselerometer (id)
• Japanese: 加速度計 (かそくどけい, kasokudokei)
• Korean: 가속도계(加速度計) (gasokdogye)
• Malay: jangka pecut, meter pecut, akselerometer
• Persian: شتابسنج (šetâbsanj)
• Polish: akcelerometr (pl) m, przyspieszeniomierz (pl) m
• Portuguese: acelerómetro m (Portugal), acelerômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: accelerometru (ro) n
• Russian: акселеро́метр (ru) m (akselerómetr)
• Spanish: acelerómetro (es) m
• Swedish: accelerometer (sv) c
• Tagalog: darasigsukat