odometer
an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
Origin of odometer
1Other words from odometer
- o·do·met·ri·cal [oh-duh-me-tri-kuhl], /ˌoʊ dəˈmɛ trɪ kəl/, adjective
- o·dom·e·try, noun
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How to use odometer in a sentence
One way to implement a mileage tax would be to simply check a car’s odometer every year, and turn that into a charge drivers could pay in installments.
The guitar was a present, but it would dominate the back seat of my Volkswagen sedan, which has wobbly tires, a full trunk and 100,000 miles on the odometer.
Why We New Orleanians Keep Coming Back After Every Storm | Maurice Carlos Ruffin | September 2, 2021 | TimeAlthough the rules limited its use to inter-office travel on official government business, the truck’s odometer showed it drove 77,000 miles in the three years Ellicott had it, according to the tax office.
The Shock Jock Texts That Could Be Critical in the Matt Gaetz Probe | Jose Pagliery, Roger Sollenberger | May 21, 2021 | The Daily BeastFor all of the miles New Horizons will put on its odometer, it will never set the record for the greatest distance a spacecraft will travel from Earth—the best it can do is come in fifth.
After Visiting Pluto, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Reaches Another Cosmic Milestone | Jeffrey Kluger | April 16, 2021 | TimeShe also uses a separate handlebar odometer, so she doesn’t have to rely on her phone for mileage.
How to take an overnight trip with your two-wheeled vehicle | Melanie D.G. Kaplan | March 26, 2021 | Washington Post
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.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyThe 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.
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I (of 2) | Hazard StevensToward half past five the odometer on one of the dog-sleds registered a distance of three-quarters of a mile made since morning.
A Man's Woman | Frank NorrisThe other odometer, which was much more curious, appears to have been constructed by that emperor himself23.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2) | Johann Beckman
British Dictionary definitions for odometer
/ (ɒˈdɒmɪtə, əʊ-) /
US and Canadian a device that records the number of miles that a bicycle or motor vehicle has travelled: Also called: mileometer
Origin of odometer
1Derived forms of odometer
- odometry, noun
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Scientific definitions for 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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