Used in a Sentence

jamming

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for jamming.

Editorial note

Jamming a few hobbyist drones is nothing like jamming thousands of military grade drones, and the techniques you think will stop their communications aren't all that effective.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The playing of improvisational music.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jamming gathered in one view.

noun

The playing of improvisational music.

noun

The act or process by which something is jammed.

adjective

(slang) Great; awesome.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jamming.

noun

The playing of improvisational music.

noun

The act or process by which something is jammed.

adjective

(slang) Great; awesome.

Example sentences

1

Jamming a few hobbyist drones is nothing like jamming thousands of military grade drones, and the techniques you think will stop their communications aren't all that effective.

2

It's just a psychological jamming mechanism to fool people into letting the totalitarian structure get into place.

3

The individual events -- guns jamming, doors sliding, lights flashing -- just don't add up to much by themselves.

4

Also, jamming is far harder than you might think; anything you use becomes a really easy target.

5

Thanks for jamming your political views to your board, and therefore your product, and your users.

6

Signal jamming is an obvious weak point - one that disappears as autonomy is increased.

7

Experienced manual typists learned not just touch-typing but the correct rhythm to minimize the time between keystrokes without quite jamming the machine.

8

Can you point us to any public information about military systems' jamming resilience?

9

Adjacent hammers can block each other without jamming when typing too fast.

10

As was said by irishcoffee upthread, jamming GPS is not a concern.

11

Machine intelligence frowns upon your silly attempts at jamming its uplinks.

12

So if you start jamming 65MP camera's with highly accurate GPS and inertia sensors etc on them may cause peoples heads to explode with conspiracy theories.

Quote examples

1

Predator drones and other autonomous, existing military kit already use high frequency satellite communications techniques that are essentially jam proof." Your idea of jamming is too narrow.

2

In practice, there really aren't that many ways to "jam" a rocket, radio jamming really can't hit all the bands, and frequency-hopping SDR is very, very cheap now.

3

The vehicle gets its flight path orders from an inertial navigation system".[20] Inertial navigation continues to be used on military aircraft despite the advent of GPS because GPS signal jamming and spoofing are relatively simple operations.

4

Once you start doing the math on "I'm going to keep 1,000+ nodes in a mesh network from operating a phased array capable of keeping a lock on the signal from a constellation of satellites", things like jamming become extremely non-trivial, and only operate over relatively short timeframes or with hugely vulnerable base stations.

Proper noun examples

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Jamming a frequency would cause more of a problem, because now you have an /uncontrolled/ four foot across aircraft flying in restricted airspace.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use jamming in a sentence?

Jamming a few hobbyist drones is nothing like jamming thousands of military grade drones, and the techniques you think will stop their communications aren't all that effective.

What does jamming mean?

The playing of improvisational music.

What part of speech is jamming?

jamming is commonly used as noun, adjective.