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Definition: Speedometer |
SpeedometerNoun1. A meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "speedometer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Speedometer n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes). The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating system goes through its main loop. A swiftly moving pattern indicates that the system is mostly idle; the speedometer slows down as the system becomes overloaded. The speedometer on Sun Microsystems hardware bounces back and forth like the eyes on one of the Cylons from the wretched "Battlestar Galactica" TV series. Historical note: One computer, the GE 600 (later Honeywell 6000) actually had an _analog_ speedometer on the front panel, calibrated in instructions executed per second. Source: Jargon File. |
Meteorology & Standards | Indicates the number of revolutions, speed, output, etc. , per unit of time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | Measuring instrument of the same design as a tachometer, but graduated in metres per minute(m/min), or in other units of linear velocity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Instrument for indicating the speed of travel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | An instrument that indicates the velocity of a moving body, usually expressed in metres per second. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A speed indicator. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Indique le nombre de milles parcourus. . . . . --a device (as on an automobile) that measures distance as well as speed: odometer. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SpeedometerSynonym: speed indicator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Velocity | Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Speedometer |
| English words defined with "speedometer": machmeter, miles per hour, mph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "speedometer": automatic-spray-machine operator ♦ glass bender, glass sagger, glass-etcher helper ♦ INSTRUMENT REPAIRER ♦ lens molder, LENS-MOLDING-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ♦ punch press operator ♦ SPRAY-PAINTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ WAXER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Our speedometer has melted and as a result it's very hard to see with any degree of accuracy exactly how fast we were going (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.) This speedometer only goes up to 80. This machine can only go as fast as 80,000 miles an hour (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fly wheels and speedometer cables in junkyard, Abbeville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Speedometer" by Jon Urtxegi Commentary: "It´s the speedometer of my car, a Peugeot 307, I was just trying my new digital camera... It´s a courious take, isn´t it?." | "101 on the 101" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "This is the last and fastest of my speedometer pictures - taken on the 101 southbound in the early afternoon. it's blurry, but remember, i was going a hundred one miles per hour in a 95 buick regal. taking pictures. i had a low fuel light on too, but i mi" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The tachogenerator ( a speedometer) is different for U.S. made trucks, and it measures the distance in miles and for European trucks in kilometers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Speedometer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Speedometer" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 22.22% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "speedometer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpejtësimatës. (various references) | |
Arabic | عداد السرعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спидометър. (various references) | |
Chinese | 车速表. (various references) | |
Czech | tachometr (tachometer), rychlomìr (tachometer). (various references) | |
Danish | speedometer (recording speed indicator, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, tachometer, tachymeter), tachometer (recording speed indicator, speed counter, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, speedometre, tachometer, tachometre, tachymeter), omdrejningstæller (odometer, revolution counter, speed counter, speedometre, tachometer, tachometre), hastighedsmaaler (fan wheel meter, impeller meter, inferential meter), hastighedsmåler (tachometer, velocimeter), fartskriver (recording speed indicator, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, tachograph, tachygraph, tachymeter). (various references) | |
Dutch | snelheidsmeter (fan wheel meter, impeller meter, inferential meter, recording speed indicator, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, tachometer, tachymeter, velocimeter), snelheidsaanwijzer, toerenteller (revolution counter, revolution indicator, speed counter, speedometre, tachometer, tachometre), tachometer (tachometer, tachymeter), tacheometer (tachometer, tachymeter). (various references) | |
Farsi | کیلومترشمارساعتی , سرعت سنج (Cyclometer). (various references) | |
Finnish | nopeusmittari (speed counter, speedometre, tachometer, tachometre, velocimeter). (various references) | |
French | indicateur de vitesse (recording speed indicator, speed counter, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, speedometre), compteur de vitesse (recording speed indicator, speed counter, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, speedometre). (various references) | |
German | Tachometer (tachometer), Geschwindigkeitsmesser (speed indicator, tachometer). (various references) | |
Greek | ταχύμετρο (air speed indicator, speed indicator, tachometer, tachymeter). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מד מהירות, מד אוץ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sebességmérő (log, patent log). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengukur kecepatan. (various references) | |
Italian | tachimetro (tachometer, tachymeter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 速度計 , スパイ罪 (crime of espionage, fastball, ink spattering, slowing down, spaghetti, spaghetti meat sauce, spaghetti Western, span, span of control, spangle, Spanish, Spanish America, spanner, Spartacus Games, spasm, spats, spatula, speaker, speaker unit, speech, speech therapist, speech therapy, speed, speed ball, speed limit, speed skating, speed up, speed-gun, speedway, speedy, spot, student slang for the restaurant chain "Spaghetti Factory", thank you, wrench). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そくどけい, スピードメーター . (various references) | |
Korean | 속도계. (various references) | |
Manx | meiheyder bieauid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedometerspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | velocímetro (recording speed indicator, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, tachometer, tachymeter), taquímetro (revolution counter, tachometer, tachymeter). (various references) | |
Romanian | vitezometru, tahometru. (various references) | |
Russian | спидометр. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brzinomer (tachometer). (various references) | |
Spanish | velocímetro (clock), indicador de velocidad (recording speed indicator, speed indicator, speed recorder, speed tachymeter, tachymeter). (various references) | |
Swedish | hastighetsmätare (clock). (various references) | |
Turkish | takometre (speed indicator, speedo, tach, tachometer), hızölçer (speed indicator, speedo, tachometer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спідометр, тахометр (tachometer, tachymeter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "speedometer": speedometers. (additional references) | |
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"Speedometer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spedometer, spirometer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "speedometer" (pronounced spēdÄ"muter) |
| 6 | -d Ä" m u t er | odometer. |
| 5 | -Ä" m u t er | accelerometer, anemometer, barometer, densitometer, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, interferometer, kilometer, magnetometer, micrometer, photometer, spectrometer, tensiometer, thermometer. |
| 4 | -m u t er | altimeter, diameter, estimator, parameter, perimeter, polarimeter. |
| 3 | -u t er | editor, elater, Amphitheater, arbiter, auditor, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, depositor, distributor, executor, exhibitor, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, marketer, monitor, orator, orbiter, picketer, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, telemarketer, Theater, theatre, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-m-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pedometers. | |
-2 letters: deportees, pedometer. | |
-3 letters: deemster, dempster, deportee, dopester, esteemed, modester, pestered, stereoed, tempered. | |
-4 letters: deepest, demotes, deperms, deports, deposer, emerods, emersed, emoters, meeters, meteors, metered, metopes, oersted, petered, premeds, premeet, redeems, redtops, reested, remeets, remotes, reposed, speeder, speered, sported, steeped, steeper, steered, stomped, stomper, stormed, teemers, teepees, tempers, teredos, tromped, trompes. | |
-5 letters: deeper, demote. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-e-m-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: speedometers. | |
+3 letters: redevelopments. | |
+4 letters: predevelopments. | |
+5 letters: overdevelopments. | |
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