Meanings
plural data recorders
- An electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location.
Based on the data recorded by the car’s event data recorder (EDR), the car had slowed and was traveling about 1 mph about 80 feet from impact, within 32 feet of the stop line on SH-22.
2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 20221 more example
It also observed that the driver did not conduct an adequate running brake test at the beginning of the journey, and that Rail Operations Group did not adequately manage the retrieval of evidence from the on-train data recorders (OTDR) in the locomotives.
2020 November 18, “Network News: Lack of safety compliance a factor in Loughborough SPAD”, in Rail, page 25Synonyms: datalogger
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location.
Cite this entry
data recorder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/data%20recorder
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