Definitions for speedometer
spiˈdɒm ɪ tər, spɪ-speedome·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. speedometer, speed indicatornoun

   a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. speedometernoun

   A device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle.

2. speedometernoun

   Such a device incorporating an odometer.

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1. Speedometer

   A speedometer or speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a vehicle. Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the early 20th century, and as standard equipment from about 1910 onwards. Other vehicles may use devices analogous to the speedometer with different means of sensing speed, eg. boats use a pit log, while aircraft use an airspeed indicator. Charles Babbage is credited with creating an early type of a speedometer, which was usually fitted to locomotives.The electric speedometer was invented by the Croatian Josip Belušić in 1888 and was originally called a velocimeter.

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1. speedometer

   A speedometer is an instrument usually located on the dashboard of a vehicle, that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of the vehicle. It is a key feature in vehicles for monitoring speed for safety and legal purposes. Can be calibrated in either miles, kilometers, or both, per hour, depending on local regulations and vehicle's country of origin.

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1. Speedometer

   A speedometer or a speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a land vehicle. Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the 1900s, and as standard equipment from about 1910 onwards. Speedometers for other vehicles have specific names and use other means of sensing speed. For a boat, this is a pit log. For an aircraft, this is an airspeed indicator. The speedometer was invented by the Croatian Josip Belušić in 1888, and was originally called a velocimeter.

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1. speedometer

   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.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of speedometer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of speedometer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=speedometer
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Speedometer
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedometer
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=speedometer
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Speedometer