geofence
Syllables: geo·fence/ˈdʒiːəʊfɛns/US/ˈd͡ʒioʊfɛns/
geofence noun: a virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside the area, and determining if they cross the "fence".
Noun
geofence (plural geofences)
- A virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside the area, and determining if they cross the "fence".
- To make the location data more useful to its customers, uLocate has developed some enhancements. For instance, users can set up "geofences" around specific locations; when a phone enters or leaves that area, an alert is triggered. This could be used to let parents know, by e-mail or SMS, when a...1986, PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing, volume 23, New York, N.Y.: PC Communications Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2
- A company like PetsMobility produces the "PetsCell," a "revolutionary waterproof A-GPS CDMA cell phone for your Pet" (as the company puts it). PetsMobility declares that / there's no hiding with the PetsCell™. […] Establish a remote programmable geofence around a yard or campus, and use handy...2009, Mark J. Lacy, “Designing Security: Control Society and MoMA’s SAFE: Design Takes on Risk”, in François Debrix, Mark J. Lacy, editors, The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and...
Verb
geofence (third-person singular simple present geofences, present participle geofencing, simple past and past participle geofenced)
- To provide a geofence around (an area).
- In this adventure you have built the hardware and software for a fully functional passenger lift, just like the lifts inside real buildings. By doing this, you have used many of the skills you learnt by working through all of the adventures in this book, including sensing the players' position...2015, Martin O'Hanlon, David Whale, “Adventure 10: The Minecraft Lift”, in Adventures in Minecraft, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page BC20
- The practice, called fingerprinting, is prohibited by Apple. To prevent the company from discovering the practice, Uber geofenced Apple headquarters in Cupertino, changing its code so that it would be hidden from Apple Employees.2017 April 23, Andrew Liptak, “Uber tried to fool Apple and got caught: Uber geofenced Apple’s Cupertino headquarters to hide that it was tracking iPhones”, in The Verge, archived from the original...
Examples of geofence in a sentence
- For instance, users can set up "geofences" around specific locations; when a phone enters or leaves that area, an alert is triggered.1986, PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing, volume 23, New York, N.Y.: PC Communications Corporation...
- A geofence could be a mile or more around a store or it could be fifty feet from the front door, whatever the business decides.2011, Chuck Martin, The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile, Boston, Mass.: Nicholas Brealey, →ISBN, page 144:
- Musk had “geofenced” the service so that it was available only in certain areas.2022 October 26, Cade Metz, Adam Satariano, Chang Che, “How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Forms of geofence
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | geofences |
| alternative form | geo-fence |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | geofences |
| present participle | geofencing |
| past participle | geofenced |
| past | geofenced |
Origin of geofence
From geo- + fence.
Words formed from geofence
Questions about geofence
- What does geofence mean?
- Geofence means a virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside the area, and determining if they cross the "fence".
- How do you use geofence in a sentence?
- For instance, users can set up "geofences" around specific locations; when a phone enters or leaves that area, an alert is triggered.
- What part of speech is geofence?
- Geofence can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce geofence?
- Geofence is pronounced /ˈdʒiːəʊfɛns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of geofence?
- The plural of geofence is geofences.
Words near geofence in the dictionary
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