speedometer
pronunciation
How to pronounce speedometer in British English:
UK [spi:ˈdɒmɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce speedometer in American English:
US [spiˈdɑmɪtə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed
Word Origin
- speedometer (n.)
- 1904, from speed + -meter. A Germanic-Greek hybrid and thus much execrated. [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] The correct classical formation is tachometer.
Example
- 1. The speedometer on my scooter is broken .
- 2. My car doesn 't have a speedometer .
- 3. You saw the speedometer ?
- 4. The speedometer was rocking between sixty and sixty-five .
- 5. Like I said , never set the speedometer back .