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peoplemeter en · NOUN

Etymology

people + -meter

Meanings

1. A device installed in a household to track which occupants watch which television shows, for the purpose of measuring viewing habits in the population.
   • These machines could not indicate if anyone was actually sitting in front of the TV watching it. But new machines called peoplemeters can tell which members of the family are watching […] 1990, Lynne S. Gross, The New Television Technologies, page 7:
   • […] a peoplemeter-like box to measure viewing […] 2013, James Webster, Patricia Phalen, Lawrence Lichty, Ratings Analysis: Audience Measurement and Analytics, page 33:

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