odometer

English

Alternative forms

• hodometer (dated)
• odometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”) (equivalent to +‎ -meter).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊˈdɒmətə/, /əʊˈdɒmɪtə/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /oʊˈdɑːmətɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

odometer (plural odometers)

1. An instrument, usually embedded within the speedometer of a vehicle, that measures the distance the vehicle has traveled since production.
2. A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.

Synonyms

• odograph

Derived terms

• odometer fraud
• trip odometer

Translations

instrument in a vehicle

• Albanian: odometr m
• Arabic: عَدَّادُ المَسَافَات m (ʕaddādu l-masāfāt)
• Azerbaijani: odometr
• Basque: odometro
• Belarusian: адо́метр m (adómjetr)
• Catalan: comptaquilòmetres m, hodòmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 里程表 (lǐchéngbiǎo)

• Dutch: kilometerteller (nl) m
• Esperanto: hodometro, odometro
• Finnish: matkamittari (fi)
• French: odomètre (fr) m
• Galician: hodómetro m
• Georgian: ოდომეტრი (odomeṭri)
• German: Hodometer n, Odometer m, Kilometerzähler (de) m

  Alemannic German: Hodometer n

• Greek: οδόμετρο (el) n (odómetro)

  Ancient: ὁδόμετρον n (hodómetron)

• Hindi: पथमापी (pathmāpī)
• Hungarian: kilométeróra (hu), kilométer-számláló
• Ido: hodometro (io), odometer (io)
• Italian: contachilometri (it) m
• Japanese: オドメーター (ja) (odomētā)
• Kannada: ಓಡೋಮೀಟರ್ (ōḍōmīṭar)
• Kazakh: одометр (odometr)
• Korean: 오도미터 (odomiteo)
• Latvian: odometrs m
• Lithuanian: odometras m
• Macedonian: километражник m (kilometražnik)
• Malay: odometer, jangka jarak, meter jarak
• Malayalam: ഓഡോമീറ്റർ (ōḍōmīṟṟaṟ)
• Maori: ine-mamao, ine tawhiti
• Polish: drogomierz m
• Portuguese: odómetro (pt) m (Portugal), odômetro (pt) m (Brazil), hodómetro m (Portugal), hodômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: odometru (ro) n
• Russian: одо́метр (ru) m (odómetr)
• Spanish: odómetro (es) m, cuentakilómetros (es) m
• Swedish: vägmätare (sv), odometer (sv)
• Tamil: ஓடோமீட்டர் (ōṭōmīṭṭar)
• Thai: ออดอมิเตอร์
• Ukrainian: одо́метр m (odómetr)
• Uzbek: odometr

  Cyrillic: одометр (uz) (odometr)

wheel used by surveyors

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: odometri
• French: please add this translation if you can

See also

• tripmeter

Anagrams

• odometre