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An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed.

See Odometer.

An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.

Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.

Measurement of distances by the odometer.

of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

An odometer; -- called also viatometer.

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

erforated to receive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear. -- Measuring wheel, an odometer, or perambulator. -- Wheel and axle (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of…