meal, repast(noun) the food served and eaten at one time. meal(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. meal(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Encoders turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal that is used by the control system to monitor specific parameters of the application and make adjustments if necessary to maintain the machine operating as desired.
I'm developing a prototype that uses a quadrature encoder to measure it's linear displacement. The encoder is attached to the prototype body and has a wheel in it's shaft. As the prototype moves straight forward the encoder measure the linear distance.