telemetry

1. 1.

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

   Broadermeasurement

Other forms of telemetry

plural

telemetries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about telemetry

What does telemetry mean?

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

How many syllables are in telemetry?

telemetry has 4 syllables: te-lem-e-try. The stress falls on "lem". In IPA it is /təˈlɛmətɹi/.

Is telemetry a common word?

telemetry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.