How to Use imager in a Sentence

imager

noun
  • At night, they can be seen in the thermal imager at a distance.
    — Carolyn Forché, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The imager was designed to detect faint features in the solar wind that streams out from the sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The drone, equipped with a thermal imager, can fly about six miles when loaded with explosives.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The thermal imager can spot a person on the ground in darkness from a kilometer away.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Unlike a regular imager, this chip doesn't capture frame after frame with each tick of the clock.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The video shows a helicopter through a thermal imager, bright against the dark sky, and the firing of a missile.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The blankets do still betray a somewhat blotchy contour on thermal imagers.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Sequences shot through thermal imagers are hard to interpret and do not have the same appeal as daytime videos.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • One of her projects involved placing tiny imagers in birds’ nests to study the birds’ behavior and nesting cycles.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The two zoomable cameras that make up the rover’s Mastcam-Z imager survey the terrain.
    — Merrill Sherman, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • The imager has previously also been trained on Jupiter and Mars.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • One of the probes will carry a narrow-field imager to study the corona itself, the sun’s blistering outer layer.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • This imager beams a monochrome green image directly to your eye, with a level of light dim enough to be safe but bright enough to be seen against ambient light.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Only robotic imagers have witnessed this lunar region.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • This could produce sharper, real-time pictures from inside the human body, says a researcher who hopes to one day build such a unified imager.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2013
  • Multiple imagers and sensors will capture and send back data across different wavelengths of light.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • As the probe journeyed through space, its science team discovered that the spacecraft's high-resolution imager was out of focus.
    — Sidd Bikkannavar, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2010
  • Rimfax, the radar imager for the Martian subsurface, was designed in Norway.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The team then constructed a prototype imager that is capable of tracking those molecules in living cells.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Hope is a boxy satellite the size of a small car that will use three main instruments—an imager and two gas spectrometers—to study the Martian atmosphere.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 6 July 2020
  • Time-lapse sequences taken with the imager have allowed researchers to better study dynamic activity on the planet.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2018
  • The turret also includes a 360 degree thermal imager for remote viewing.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2020
  • But first, the imager will scout the asteroid’s immediate neighborhood to check for any moonlets that could pose hazards to the spacecraft or offer clues to the space rock’s murky past.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • The L'Ralph instrument—yes, that's its name—is comprised of an infrared spectrometer and a color imager.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
  • At night, attacks on the headlights of moving vehicles are possible, or the use of FPV drone with a thermal imager.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The device is designed for use in small imagers, such as smartphone cameras, and tuned via the waveguide’s dimensions to match the color sensitivity of the human eye.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The imager is located on the Landsat 9 satellite, and it was designed to capture high-resolution photos of our planet.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 May 2022
  • In order to do that, Psyche's multispectral imager will be used to capture thousands of observations of Mars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 May 2026
  • Now that the fine phasing stage is complete, the Near-Infrared Camera, which serves as the telescope's primary imager, is aligned to the mirror.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The company is also looking to enter the automotive market, where imagers need a high dynamic range to deal with the big differences between day and night driving.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020

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