odometer
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3.9
- noun
- /əˈdɑːmɪtər/
- Before selling my car, I checked the odometer to see how many miles it had traveled.
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- I remember pushing that sometimes I would have to push my car to get to where I was going to not have that odometer rack up and because it's expensive.
Examples
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The station wagon was so old that the odometer had gone all the way around.
Fiction book (1997) -
And we have the same results on an insurance study where people are reporting the odometer reading on their car.
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Have you looked at the odometer lately?
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'Course, only 28 miles on the odometer... ...since I drove it a week ago last Saturday.
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When he traded it in, it was found that the odometer had been changed.
Blog text (7) -
Burnsley looked at the odometer and then at his watch.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Lancer has but 22 miles on its odometer, and the Dakota 23.
Blog text (10) -
Typically, an odometer connected to the car's transmission shaft transmits information about the distance the car has traveled.
Academic text (1994) -
Mileage problems could indicate that the odometer has been tampered with at some point in the past.
Blog text (3) -
Carrie glances at the odometer on the dash.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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2.4
The total distance travelled measured in miles
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9.9
A meter in a vehicle that shows how far it has traveled
A device that shows how far a vehicle has traveled
A device in a vehicle that shows how many miles it has traveled
A device in a vehicle that shows how many miles it has traveled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word odometer comes from two Greek parts: hodos meaning 'road' or 'way' and -meter meaning 'measure'. So it is literally a 'road-measurer', which is why an odometer shows how far a vehicle has travelled.