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Speedometer   /spidˈɑmətər/   Listen
Speedometer

noun
1.
A meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed.  Synonym: speed indicator.






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"Speedometer" Quotes from Famous Books



... buy you a supper. The car is back there, and we'll shoot out to the inn. What do you say? I feel like a house afire this evening, kiddo. What does your speedometer register?" ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... his speedometer as the road stretched out for a space of a few hundred feet for safety. Five miles—only five miles in a space of time that on level country could have accounted for a hundred. Five miles and the route book told plainly that there were four more to go before ...
— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... find out," Tish said grimly. "Between nervous women in the machine and constables outside I have the twelve-miles-an- hour habit. I'm going to exchange the speedometer ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart



Words linked to "Speedometer" :   automotive vehicle, motor vehicle, machmeter, meter



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