Meanings
- uncountableThe use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject, and analyze the subject's sleep patterns.
With actigraphy, the participant wears a wrist band with a small acceleration sensor that records movement over preset epochs.
2006, Steven Jones, Richard P. Bentall, The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder, Oxford University Press1 more example
The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed.
2021 April 8, Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, Mattie Toma, “The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, number qjab013, →DOI, →ISSN
Translations
French actimétrie
- actimétriethe use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject
German Aktigraphie
- Aktigraphiethe use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject
Portuguese actigrafia
- actigrafiathe use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject
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actigraphy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/actigraphy
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