Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument that indicates distance traveled by a vehicle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument extensively used for measuring the distance passed over by any wheeled vehicle, and also in topographical surveying in regions traversed by roads.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument attached to a vehicle or connected, as by a flexible cable, to the wheel of a vehicle, which measures the distance traversed.
- noun A
hodometer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to
measure thedistance traversed. - noun A wheel used by
surveyors , which registers distance traversed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a meter that shows mileage traversed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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So, it would be another 1,000km, only my odometer is lying, or roverthedog is taking it out for joyrides, because my records from last fall said I stopped biking at 800km, and when I started riding 17 days ago it said 858.
bike log roverthedog 2010
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Even though he's 30, he wasn't being chased by defensive ends for two seasons so his odometer is closer to that of a 28-year old.
Vick 2.0 Jason Maloni 2010
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So, it would be another 1,000km, only my odometer is lying, or roverthedog is taking it out for joyrides, because my records from last fall said I stopped biking at 800km, and when I started riding 17 days ago it said 858.
bike log roverthedog 2010
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The card shark caught marking the deck, the auto dealer caught resetting a used car's odometer, is rarely contrite.
krugmanize your mind 2005
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Pittsburgh: The Bus 'odometer is over 100,000 miles.
USATODAY.com - NFL Draft scouting report: Running backs 2005
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Even in states that don’t have annual inspections, you can allow drivers to estimate (or cheat) so long as the odometer is verified when it’s resold because the new owner has an incentive for the reading to be correct.
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The odometer is a sort of lifespan indicator, that runs while the watch is running.
Luxist Ariel Adams 2010
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The odometer is a sort of lifespan indicator, that runs while the watch is running.
Luxist Ariel Adams 2010
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VCDS - EDC-15-16 Mileage Checker - Section 27-A [EDC-15-16 Mileage] is found in the Applications Screen and is used to show an independent "odometer" reading stored in the ECU.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows guestc0ba62 2010
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It seems every month I hit a new "odometer" milestone here on Epinions and several months have me rolling into the "00s" for multiple categories or ratings.
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