Meaning

2 senses
  1. An instrument located within the dashboard of a vehicle that measures and indicates the current speed of the vehicle.

    a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed

  2. Such a device incorporating an odometer.

    Geschwindigkeitsmesser, Tachometer, Tacho

    спидо́метрspidómetr

    спідо́метрspidómetr

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Tom looked at the speedometer.

    Том подивився на спідометр.

    ruТом посмотрел на спидометр.

    deTom sah auf den Tachometer.

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  2. I looked at the speedometer.

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  3. It's dangerous to drive around with a broken speedometer.

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  4. Ziri checked the speedometer and he was running almost eighty.

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  5. Your car's speedometer tells you the car's instantaneous speed, not its average speed.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle:
Русский
By meaning 1
a device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle:

Origin

From speed + -o- + -meter; by surface analysis, speed + -ometer.

From speed + -o- + -meter; by surface analysis, speed + -ometer.

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Forms

plural: speedometers
Singularspeedometer
Pluralspeedometers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed:speed indicator

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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