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trilaterate

trilaterate verb: to locate by means of trilateration.

Verb

trilaterate (third-person singular simple present trilaterates, present participle trilaterating, simple past and past participle trilaterated)

  1. To locate by means of trilateration
    • Also, the nodes overall attenuation and output power has to be calibrated and interference and multipath effects appear in closed environments. Another possibility to trilaterate the position of a sensor node is the time of flight measurement.2016, Thorbjörn Jörger, Fabian Höflinger, Gerd Ulrich Gamm, Leonhard M. Reindl, “Wireless distance estimation with low-power standard components in wireless sensor nodes”, in arXiv

Forms of trilaterate

third-person singular presenttrilaterates
present participletrilaterating
past participletrilaterated
pasttrilaterated

Questions about trilaterate

What does trilaterate mean?
Trilaterate means to locate by means of trilateration.
What part of speech is trilaterate?
Trilaterate is a verb.
What is the past tense of trilaterate?
The past tense of trilaterate is trilaterated.

Words near trilaterate in the dictionary

  1. trilateralized
  2. trilateralizes
  3. trilateralizing
  4. trilaterally
  5. trilateralness
  6. trilaterate
  7. trilateration
  8. trilaterations
  9. trilaurin
  10. trilaurylamine
  11. trilayer

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