Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A surveying instrument used for the rapid determination of distances, elevations, and bearings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surveying-instrument. See the quotation. Also called
tacheometer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surveying) An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.
- noun A speed indicator; a tachometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
surveying instrument for quickly finding distances.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a theodolite designed for rapid measurements
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its tachymeter function used to convert time intervals to speed or rates of events is etched around the rim of the analog face.
Rock Out With Your Clock Out: We Test Atomic Watches By Michael S. Lasky 2008
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Its tachymeter function used to convert time intervals to speed or rates of events is etched around the rim of the analog face.
Rock Out With Your Clock Out: We Test Atomic Watches Michael S. Lasky 2008
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Ok, so there is a difference between tachometer and tachymeter.
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Ok, so there is a difference between tachometer and tachymeter.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Features scratch resistant and anti-reflective crystal, tachymeter scale around the bezel and is water resistant to 100 meters.
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Features a cool dark blue dial, Japanese Miyota movement, tachymeter scale, and a silver/black bracelet.
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Hodinkee: "In 1972, Heuer launched a promotion with the Viceroy brand of cigarettes to sell a distinctive self-winding caliber 12 Autavia with a black dial, red hands, and a tachymeter bezel (like on the Siffert Autavias) for $88 to those that sent in one carton end flap."
Amateur Economist 2010
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With a stopwatch, date display, tachymeter and chronograph dials, how does it look this good?
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The tachymeter scale can be used to compute the speed - between 60 and 330 km/h - travelled over one kilometre.
Top Speed 2010
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Introduced in 1960 and named for the Daytona International Speedway, it retains most of its original features (three chronographic subdials and a tachymeter on the bezel), though it's now driven by a spankin'-new movement.
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