What's the difference between pedometer and waywiser?
Pedometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.
Example Sentences:
(1) To that end, Yokohama, a city near Tokyo, has introduced a walking programme that offers free pedometers to people over 40 and awards points for steps walked.
(2) This negative finding was confirmed by pedometer step counts over the whole week.
(3) It’s first Fitbit Tracker was released that year, a glorified pedometer that looked like a clothes peg.
(4) The pedometer readings were influenced more by the patients' walking habits than by fitness.
(5) Two week activity measurements were obtained, over two studies, using pedometers, from 127 women aged 19 to 55 years ranging from 14% underweight to 99% overweight.
(6) To obtain comparable data of different pedometers it was necessary to adjust the spring tension very carefully.
(7) In 1999 the remasters of Pokémon Gold and Silver came with pedometers to train your Pokémon on the go.
(8) The pedometers failed to record accurately in some postpolio subjects, and these subjects were dropped from analysis when ambulation distance was used as a variable.
(9) Twelve of 14 individual sexual activities also were correlated on a within-cow basis with pedometer-measured increases in motor activity; disoriented mounts and licking front were not correlated to pedometer increases.
(10) Daily physical activity was measured by four methods (HR, Time study, CC, Pedometer) in a field study of 14 young, healthy and sedentary women, and compared.
(11) In 12--18 year old boys actual steprate on a treadmill was compared to the scores of two types of mechanical pedometers (Russian and German), attached to the waist.
(12) In a similar group of 31 subjects, classifications based on questionnaire activity scores were compared with classifications obtained by repeated 24-h activity recalls and pedometer measurements, showing Spearman's correlations of 0.78 and 0.73, for both methods, respectively.
(13) The whole day readings of the pedometer for all the subjects moderately correlated (r = 0.438, p less than 0.05) with the net energy cost (NEC) as determined by subtracting the sleeping metabolic cost from the energy expenditure (clerical workers: r = 0.781, p less than 0.01; assembly workers: r = 0.188, p less than 0.05).
(14) This paper reviews the evolution of these instruments from the mechanical pedometer to the electronic accelerometer.
(15) Pedometers were used to measure daily physical activity of cows to determine if variation related to estrus was great enough to be useful in estrus detection.
(16) The capacity of the pedometer to detect the impacts of body movements, and the characteristics of activity, are responsible for the differences in correlation.
(17) The decrease in the pedometer readings were marked in both primiparas and multiparas, the value being much lower than that of any other week of gestation.
(18) Caloric intake, movement recorders (accelerometers and pedometers), and heart rate were the measurements studied in 30 subjects who were monitored during their waking hours for 7 continuous days.
(19) The pedometer results point out that when the percentage of intense activity is high the pedometer tends to underestimate the level of activity.
(20) The correlation analysis of the pedometer readings with the NEC in three activity phases in a day (work, commuting and staying at home), showed that the extent of the relationship differed by job types and activity phases.
Waywiser
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.