Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument that records the revolutions of a wheel to indicate distance traveled.
- noun An instrument that measures circular arcs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for recording the revolutions of a wheel or the distance traversed by a vehicle; an odometer.
- noun A circle-squarer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device that counts the revolutions of a
bicycle wheel in order to indicate distance travelled. - noun An instrument for measuring circular
arcs . - noun A machine used to decrypt
Enigma machine ciphers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surely the cyclometer is a Darwinite development of a spider, who is always at circles, and always begins again when his web is brushed away.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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They've already got a way to use your iPhone as your cyclometer.
BSNYC Friday Fun Conspiracy! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Then he went back to the bike and checked the cyclometer.
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The ubiquitously useful Benjamin Franklin started this by traveling from Boston to Philadelphia in a chaise with a kind of cyclometer of his own invention attached to it that measured the miles as he rode.
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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The ubiquitously useful Benjamin Franklin started this by traveling from Boston to Philadelphia in a chaise with a kind of cyclometer of his own invention attached to it that measured the miles as he rode.
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey
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Nevertheless, I relinquished not my hold, for I was truly attached to the fellow, and in due time we made a mile, though I know the cyclometer would have recorded ten.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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An ordinary cyclometer is nothing but an arrangement for counting these revolutions, but it is graduated in such a manner that it gives at once the distance in miles.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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We always called it a mile; but the last time he was home on leave Freddy measured it with his new cyclometer.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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That signals "central" again, and she withdraws the plug from both holes and pushes another button, which connects with a meter made like a bicycle cyclometer.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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