Use ancilla in a sentence. an aid for use as in understanding or accomplishing something; often, specif., a handbook, or manual. Origin of ancilla. see ancillary.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The accelerometer in mobiles is used to measure the orientation or vertical and horizontal positioning of the phone. The most basic application of this is the device knowing when to alternate the view of the screen depending on how you are holding it.
December 12, 2014. Abstract. Our goal is to make gesture-based input for smartphones and smartwatches accurate and feasible to use. With a custom Android application to record accelerometer data for 5 gestures, we developed a highly accu-. rate SVM classi er using only 1 training example per class. Our novel Dynamic-Threshold Truncation.