Crossword clues for speedometer
speedometer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1904, from speed + -meter. A Germanic-Greek hybrid and thus much execrated.\n\n[T]he ancient Greeks & Romans knew what speed was, & yet no-one supposes they called it speed, whence it follows that speedo- & speedometer are barbarisms.
[Fowler]
\nThe correct classical formation is tachometer.Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle. 2 Such a device incorporating an odometer.
WordNet
n. a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed [syn: speed indicator]
Wikipedia
A speedometer or a speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a vehicle. Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the 1900s, and as standard equipment from about 1910 onwards. Speedometers for other vehicles have specific names and use other means of sensing speed. For a boat, this is a pit log. For an aircraft, this is an airspeed indicator.
Charles Babbage is credited with creating an early type of a speedometer, which were usually fitted to locomotives.
The electric speedometer was invented by the Croatian Josip Belušić in 1888, and was originally called a velocimeter.
Usage examples of "speedometer".
The speedometer was edged over to a thousand miles an hour, when there was a dazzlingly bright flash in the sky behind and above him.
Even then he would have disbelieved any such possibility had he not glanced down at his speedometer and realized he was going ten miles over the legal limit on the narrow road.
Easing down on the accelerator, Father John glanced at the speedometer needle jumping at sixty-five.
In fact another five kilometres an hour on the speedometer might well have seen them over the precipice.
The indicator on the speedometer started to drop steadily as the engine continued to chug.
N6 for most of the journey, always keeping the speedometer five kilometres below the limit.
He pushed the speedometer well over ninety causing the little car to skid along country lanes.
He carried an air of determination about him, an urgency, and when Gayle glanced at the speedometer, she saw that they were moving at just under eighty.
But then they were roaring through a cluster of dark, white-washed buildings, the speedometer still hovering at eighty.
When the speedometer had dropped to under thirty, Gayle tried to leap out, but the man grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across the seat.
Transfixed, he watched the speedometer needle crawl gradually counterclockwise, then snapped off the headlight to conserve energy.
Apprehensively, he watched the speedometer mete out his remaining freedom in diminishing seconds of arc, stemming the urge to brake to a stop and bolt headlong up the tunnel on foot.
Craft took a deep breath and energized the tram, watching the speedometer by flashlight.
He thought of a way to delay his pursuers as the tram slowed further, studying the speedometer, steeling himself for the effort.
No dreams of downshifting from five to four to goose the speedometer into three digits.