trilaterate

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verb

To locate by means of trilateration

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Meanings

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

present singular third person trilaterates · participle present trilaterating · participle past trilaterated · past 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
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Chicago

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