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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



... boys laughed and sang, cracked jokes, and waved to passing cars, while the mileage record on the speedometer mounted steadily up. The sun was still quite a way above the western horizon when they reached the place where the forest road branched off from the main highway. The driver tackled this road cautiously, and they soon found that his description of it had not been overdrawn. ...
— The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice - or, Solving a Wireless Mystery • Allen Chapman
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... headed upward, although they knew that the main stabilizing gyroscopes were holding it level. In a moment the ship was headed out over the Atlantic at a speed no rifle bullet had ever known. The radio speedometer needle pushed farther and farther over as the speed increased to unheard of values. Before they left the North American shoreline they were traveling faster than a mile a second. They were in the middle of the Atlantic before Arcot gradually shut off the acceleration, ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
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Words linked to "Speedometer" :   meter, automotive vehicle, motor vehicle, machmeter


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