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. — deniko

    ruТом посмотрел на спидометр. — marafon

    deTom sah auf den Tachometer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I looked at the speedometer.

  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.

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

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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