Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An instrument that records the revolutions of a wheel to indicate distance traveled.
  • noun An instrument that measures circular arcs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for recording the revolutions of a wheel or the distance traversed by a vehicle; an odometer.
  • noun A circle-squarer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A device that counts the revolutions of a bicycle wheel in order to indicate distance travelled.
  • noun An instrument for measuring circular arcs.
  • noun A machine used to decrypt Enigma machine ciphers.

Etymologies

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cyclo- + -meter

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Examples

  • Surely the cyclometer is a Darwinite development of a spider, who is always at circles, and always begins again when his web is brushed away.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • They've already got a way to use your iPhone as your cyclometer.

    BSNYC Friday Fun Conspiracy! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Then he went back to the bike and checked the cyclometer.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The ubiquitously useful Benjamin Franklin started this by traveling from Boston to Philadelphia in a chaise with a kind of cyclometer of his own invention attached to it that measured the miles as he rode.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • The ubiquitously useful Benjamin Franklin started this by traveling from Boston to Philadelphia in a chaise with a kind of cyclometer of his own invention attached to it that measured the miles as he rode.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken.

    The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

  • Nevertheless, I relinquished not my hold, for I was truly attached to the fellow, and in due time we made a mile, though I know the cyclometer would have recorded ten.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • An ordinary cyclometer is nothing but an arrangement for counting these revolutions, but it is graduated in such a manner that it gives at once the distance in miles.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • We always called it a mile; but the last time he was home on leave Freddy measured it with his new cyclometer.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • That signals "central" again, and she withdraws the plug from both holes and pushes another button, which connects with a meter made like a bicycle cyclometer.

    Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910

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