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cyclometer

/sahy-klom-i-ter/US // saɪˈklɒm ɪ tər //UK // (saɪˈklɒmɪtə) //

循环仪,循环计,循环器,计量器

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an instrument that measures circular arcs.
    • : a device for recording the revolutions of a wheel and hence the distance traversed by a wheeled vehicle; odometer.

Examples

  • We always called it a mile; but the last time he was home on leave Freddy measured it with his new cyclometer.

  • Use the cyclometer to find out how soon you must stop, not how much further you must go.

  • If a mental or spiritual cyclometer could be used in such a case, it would make a high record of speed.

  • For another month we bicycled leisurely around Paris and added two or three hundred miles to our cyclometer record.

  • Gersten and Pascal harnessed trains of wheels to their "ready-reckoners," somewhat similar to the well-known cyclometer.