Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instrument that records the revolutions of a wheel to indicate distance traveled.
- n. An instrument that measures circular arcs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for recording the revolutions of a wheel or the distance traversed by a vehicle; an odometer.
- n. A circle-squarer.
Wiktionary
- n. a device that counts the revolutions of a bicycle wheel in order to indicate distance travelled.
- n. an instrument for measuring circular arcs
- n. a machine used to decrypt Enigma machine ciphers
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.
Examples
“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.”
“They've already got a way to use your iPhone as your cyclometer.”
“Then he went back to the bike and checked the cyclometer.”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
“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.”
“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"
“We always called it a mile; but the last time he was home on leave Freddy measured it with his new cyclometer.”
“The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken.”
“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.”
“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
“The log worked on the same principal as a bicycle cyclometer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cyclometer’.
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Cyclo
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Logolepsy
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