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What is an accelerometer?

What is an accelerometer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An instrument for measuring acceleration.
  2. An instrument made for detecting and measuring vibrations.
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A motion transducer or more specifically an accelerometer may be used to generate a ballistocardiogram.
The motion is sensed by an accelerometer disposed within the device that is formed of a monolithic integrated circuit chip.
The accelerometer is used to measure shocks and vibration caused by road roughness while the GPS unit records the truck position.
Guidance was preset, with an integrating accelerometer to measure when the missile had reached the requisite speed to reach the target.
The output scale factor of an accelerometer is simply how many volts output are provided per g of applied acceleration.
The present-day seismic network in Belgium consists of two different parts, the seismometer network and the accelerometer network.

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