How to Use altimeter in a Sentence

altimeter

noun
  • 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
  • There’s this guy who was there for both explosions, who rigged the altimeter on the two bombs and had to be in both planes.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 27 June 2025
  • For the second mission in a row, the lander's altimeter failed.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The Odysseus lander was supposed to use a laser altimeter to help guide it to the moon’s surface.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Odysseus' faulty laser altimeter, used to determine its distance from the ground, broke a lander leg and caused the spacecraft to topple over.
    — Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Garmin has removed the barometric altimeter from the Vivosmart line.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • But before their laser altimeter goes to Mars, the team seizes an opportunity to test it on the space shuttle.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Because of the pressurization issues, the altimeter failed and the parachutes were jettisoned.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2019
  • The route is not entirely marked and must be navigated by an altimeter, compass, and GPS.
    — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The Global Surveyor carried an altimeter instrument that bounced a laser beam off the surface.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The Honeywell altimeter, installed on Alaska’s fleet of Airbus jets, has not.
    — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • However, there is no barometric altimeter in the watch (the same is true for the Fitbit Charge 6), so this isn’t possible.
    — PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The first was interference with the readings from Athena's laser altimeter, the instrument that helped the lander gauge its distance from the lunar surface.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 May 2025
  • The concern is bigger in the US, where 5G operates on frequencies close to those used by radio altimeters.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 12 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Inspectors examine everything from the fuselage to the altimeter.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 2026

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