mote
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- noun
- /moʊt/
- Specialized
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mote
- This is a wireless, although we've got we mote flinging prevention wrist straps on it.
- mote-sized sensors
Examples
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The environmental monitoring system uses several motes to track temperature and humidity levels in real time.
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They have the software mote called CUDA, not Cuba CUDA.
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This is a phase transition, and for fermions we have a crossover from a metal to a fermionic mote insulator.
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Both implementations run on TelosB motes with 48KB of program memory and 10KB of RAM.
Academic text (2012) -
Each mote in the network communicates data back to the central hub, creating a detailed overview of the area.
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Researchers deployed tiny motes across the forest to collect information about wildlife activity.
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Etymology
The technical use of mote for a tiny wireless sensor is a modern borrowing of the old word mote meaning 'tiny speck'. Engineers called these devices motes because they are very small, like little particles spread across a field or room.