cyclometer

American  

[sahy-klom-i-ter] / saɪˈklɒm ɪ tər /

noun

1. an instrument that measures circular arcs.

2. a device for recording the revolutions of a wheel and hence the distance traversed by a wheeled vehicle; odometer.

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cyclometer British  

/ saɪˈklɒmɪtə /

noun

1. a device that records the number of revolutions made by a wheel and hence the distance travelled

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Other Word Forms

• cyclometric adjective
• cyclometry noun

Etymology

Origin of cyclometer

First recorded in 1805–15; cyclo- + -meter

Example Sentences

There was a man who came with us armed only with a bicycle wheel and a cyclometer, with which he has corrected all preconceived notions of Tibetan distances.

From To Lhassa at Last by Millington, Powell

On the inland ice of Greenland my dead reckoning was the compass course, and the reading of my odometer, a wheel with a cyclometer registering apparatus.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

Surely the cyclometer is a Darwinite development of a spider, who is always at circles, and always begins again when his web is brushed away.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

It is singular that no cyclometer maintains that Archimedes hit it exactly.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

I secretly placed a cyclometer upon the doctor's carriage.

From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by Ottolengui, R.