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odometer
[ oh-dom-i-ter ]
noun
- an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
odometer
/ ɒˈdɒmɪtə; əʊ- /
noun
- a device that records the number of miles that a bicycle or motor vehicle has travelled Also calledmileometer
odometer
/ ō-dŏm′ĭ-tər /
- An instrument for indicating the distance traveled by a vehicle, typically by measuring the number of rotations of a wheel or fan whose rate of rotation depends on the speed of the vehicle.
- Compare speedometer
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Derived Forms
- oˈdometry, noun
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Other Words From
- o·do·met·ri·cal [oh-d, uh, -, me, -tri-k, uh, l], adjective
- o·dome·try noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of odometer1
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Example Sentences
Inferno pegs the odometer needle into the red at the outset and stays there for nearly 500 pages.
We had been absent on our tour six weeks to a day and our odometer registered exactly 3070 miles.
The writer was given charge of the compass and the odometer, with instructions to report daily to Lieutenant Duane.
The odometer line measured to-day was twenty and a half miles.
Toward half past five the odometer on one of the dog-sleds registered a distance of three-quarters of a mile made since morning.
The other odometer, which was much more curious, appears to have been constructed by that emperor himself23.
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