How to Use altimeter in a Sentence

altimeter

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• While the radar altimeter displays the height of the landing gear above the ground, things are happening too fast to use it in the flare.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 20 May 2018
• The new display is now 2.5-times brighter when at rest, and there’s an always-on altimeter.
  — Popular Science, 15 Sep. 2020
• Satellite altimeter maps of the ocean show changes in sea surface height.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
• The plane lacked its wind gauge and altimeter, which were lost during shipping.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• Check your altimeter and trace the elevation lines on the map.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• The first is a gauge right at eye level, up above the speedometer and altimeter, that displays the plane's angle of attack.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2015
• Its most powerful weapon is the Poseidon-4 radar altimeter, named after the trident-wielding Greek god of the sea.
  — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• Stephen Lee had quietly kept the altimeter for 67 years.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
• The Series 6 also has a screen that is 2.5 times brighter while in the sun and an always-on altimeter for tracking altitude.
  — Mark Gurman, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• Rounding out the new hardware is an always-on altimeter.
  — Samuel Axon and Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2020
• The watch is meant to replace the Vivomove 3 in Garmin’s hybrid lineup and adds Garmin Pay, its sleep score feature, and a barometric altimeter.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 1 Feb. 2023
• Garmin has removed the barometric altimeter from the Vivosmart line.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• When a jet loses power, the altimeter becomes the fuel gauge, and even in an airliner that’s built to glide, 750 feet is pretty close to empty.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
• The device has a barometric altimeter for measuring things like flights of stairs.
  — Wilson Rothman, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• For those who enjoy hiking and climbing, the new watch has an altimeter and can track elevation gain.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• Those tidings come just when the Fed’s taking its eye off the real-interest rate altimeter that’s flashing red.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The aircraft equipment in question is a device called an altimeter, which uses radio waves to give pilots readings on how far a plane is above the ground.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2022
• The route is not entirely marked and must be navigated by an altimeter, compass, and GPS.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
• The thinning of the ice, for example, is measured with the help of both the laser altimeter, which detects small changes in the elevation of the ice and snow cover; and a shallow radar, which probes beneath the surface.
  — TIME.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The Honeywell altimeter, installed on Alaska’s fleet of Airbus jets, has not.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
• The Series 6, which has a swim-proof design, also has better sleep tracking and comes with an always-on Retina display and altimeter.
  — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
• At the time, pilots used the altimeter, which measures altitude, terrain charts and visual cues to avoid accidents.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Ranger 3 carried a gamma-ray spectrometer, a radar altimeter, and a seismometer in the capsule that would be soft-ish landed on the surface.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2018
• The Global Surveyor carried an altimeter instrument that bounced a laser beam off the surface.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• On the other hand, Autoland requires an airplane with the latest version of the G3000 flight deck, with auto-throttles, auto-braking, radar altimeter, and more.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2019
• Earlier this year, Fitbit stripped the Versa Lite of its extraneous features, like the altimeter, in order to lower the price tag.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2019
• The two-year survey used small Twin Otter planes, sensors detecting gravity and magnetism, as well as radar and laser altimeter tools.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2018
• Because of the pressurization issues, the altimeter failed and the parachutes were jettisoned.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2019
• The lander is also equipped with laser altimeter and velocimeter, and a throttleable engine to provide adjustable thrust for the powered descent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
• There's also a new Elevation view with altimeter data, and Maps works offline now, too.
  — Samuel Axon and Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024