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
- : 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.
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