Crossword clues for odometer
odometer
- Auto gauge
- Dashboard gauge
- Dash component
- Auto device
- Dashboard display
- You'll travel far before it turns over
- Device measuring distance traveled
- Driver's gauge
- Distance gauge
- Self-centered dashboard item?
- Panel feature
- Mileage keeper in a car
- Middle of a dash?
- It's checked on used cars
- Instrument showing mileage travelled
- Gas mileage calculating aid
- Fuel-gauge neighbor
- Distance measurer
- Device in a "busting miles" crime
- Counter-revolutionary device?
- Car part that moves in only one direction
- Part of a dash
- Auto part you shouldn't tamper with
- Driving range device?
- Counter in a car
- Dash instrument
- What's manipulated in the crime known as "clocking"
- A meter that shows mileage traversed
- Dashboard item
- Mileage recorder
- Mileage gauge
- Exercise-bike adjunct
- Instrument for measuring distance traveled
- Cheat collected energy in alternative measuring device
- European motored about — this could prove it
- One on a dash, nothing to prevent covering over a mile
- It registers miles motored, possibly around the Orient
- Instrument revealing Frodo met Erik, essentially
- Car part
- Mileage counter
- Measuring device
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
odometer \o*dom"e*ter\ ([-o]*d[o^]m"[-e]*t[~e]r), n. [Gr. "odo`metron, "odo`metros, an instrument for measuring distance; "odo`s way + me`tron measure: cf. F. odom['e]tre, hodom['e]tre. See also hodometer.] An instrument attached to a vehicle or connected, as by a flexible cable, to the wheel of a vehicle, which measures the distance traversed.
2. A hodometer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791, from French odomètre (1724), from Greek hodos "way" (see cede) + -meter. First recorded in writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed. 2 A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traversed.
WordNet
n. a meter that shows mileage traversed [syn: hodometer, mileometer, milometer]
Wikipedia
An odometer or odograph is an instrument that indicates distance travelled by a vehicle, such as a bicycle or automobile. The device may be electronic, mechanical, or a combination of the two. The noun derives from the Greek words hodós ("path" or "gateway") and métron ("measure"). In countries where Imperial units or US customary units are used, it is sometimes called a mileometer or milometer, the former name especially being prevalent in the United Kingdom and members of the Commonwealth.
Usage examples of "odometer".
In a cylindrical bracelet of gold about my wrist was my Barsoomian chronometer--a delicate instrument that records the tals and xats and zodes of Martian time, presenting them to view beneath a strong crystal much after the manner of an earthly odometer.
She settled on a three-year-old Buick Skylark, two-tone blue with twenty-eight thousand miles on the odometer, and paid sixty-eight hundred bucks after haggling with the used car manager at Don Snell Buick for a couple of weeks.
I kept my eyes on the odometer as we passed a succession of plastic mailboxes on posts, all neatly aligned by the roadside, the only sign that, somewhere deep in these forests, lay habitation.
Samplers walked the lines of their grids, pushing along a bicycle wheel with an odometer attached to measure off the distance between sampling points.
Multiple antennas bobbed on his red 1990 Jeep Cherokee, which Bubba did not realize had been listed in the Used Car Buying Guide as a used car to avoid, or that it had been wrecked and had a hundred thousand more miles on it than the odometer showed.
For the first two miles on 191, neither he nor Jilly spoke, and as the third mile began to clock up on the odometer, Dylan started to shake.
Moreover, the majority of domestic violence victims are monitored by husbands who check the odometers on their cars, their phone bills, their grocery spending, and who manipulate situations to detach them from their families and friends.
His father had recently been indicted for tampering with the odometers on the used cars he sold, so Billy was sensitive to public humiliation.
Just outside Moscow, however, they'd siphon some gas, sell it at a cut rate to Tsypin, change their odometers and, at day's end, return to their terminal with the always plausible story of bad roads and detours.
Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage and the book, he was alone, his own invention.