Odometer

//əʊˈdɒmətə// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument, usually embedded within the speedometer of a vehicle, that measures the distance the vehicle has traveled since production.

    "When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised."

  2. 2
    a meter that shows mileage traversed wordnet
  3. 3
    A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.

Synonyms

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clockclockhodometermileometermilometerodograph

Example

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"Tom checked his odometer to see how far he'd driven."

Etymology

From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter.

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