Definition of "telemeter" []

• A measuring, transmitting, and receiving device used in telemetry. (noun)
• To measure, transmit, and receive (data) automatically from a distant source, as from a spacecraft or an electric power grid. (verb-transitive)

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• "Maven took it in his hands and felt the new leather of the strap, the fluted top telemeter ring of the oversize face, then turned it over and viewed the Swiss gears working inside the see-through crystal back."
• "It will be remembered that the object of a telemeter is to make known at any moment whatever the distance of a movable object, and that, too, by a direct reading and without any calculation."
• "This telemeter was one of the first that was tried in our military ports, and gave therein most satisfactory results."