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multilateration

multilateration noun: the process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location.

Noun

multilateration (uncountable)

  1. The process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location
    • We analyse a set of popular dating application that shares users relative distances within a certain radius and show how, by using the information shared on these platforms, it is possible to formalise a multilateration attack, able to identify the user actual position.2016, Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné, “Potential mass surveillance and privacy violations in proximity-based social applications”, in arXiv
    Synonyms:
    MLat

Synonyms of multilateration

Origin of multilateration

From multilateral + -ation.

Words formed from multilateration

Questions about multilateration

What does multilateration mean?
Multilateration means the process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location.
What part of speech is multilateration?
Multilateration is a noun.

Words near multilateration in the dictionary

  1. multilateralizes
  2. multilateralizing
  3. multilaterally
  4. multilaterals
  5. multilaterated
  6. multilateration
  7. multilatina
  8. multilatinas
  9. multilaunch
  10. multilayer
  11. multilayer perceptron

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