speedometer

English

Alternative forms

• speedometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

From speed +‎ -o- +‎ -meter; by surface analysis, speed +‎ -ometer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spɪˈdɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/, /spiːˈdɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /spɪˈdɑ.mɪ.tɚ/, /spiˈdɑ.mɪ.tɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /spɪˈdɔm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/, /spiːˈdɔm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈspiːɖoːˌmiːʈə(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

speedometer (plural speedometers)

1. An instrument located within the dashboard of a vehicle that measures and indicates the current speed of the vehicle.

   Synonyms: speedo, velocimeter

   Hypernyms: instrument, gauge

   Hyponyms: airspeedometer, airspeed indicator

   Coordinate terms: tachometer, tachograph; tach, tacho

   • 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment at Lincoln”, in Modern Railways, page 375:

     Although it might be thought that drivers would naturally refer constantly to the speedometer, older drivers who come to diesel driving after years of steam experience without the help of speedometers, as well as those on steam engines which have been equipped with speedometers in recent years, have not accustomed themselves to the constant use of this instrument.

   • 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     But even Apple, the company that cast aside tradition when it reinvented phones, music players and headphones, bows to convention when it comes to speedometers. It displayed a classically-styled speedometer that reached 160 mph, an auto industry norm.
     That’s nearly twice the highest posted speed limit in the United States, 85 mph, on a stretch of highway in Texas. Why do our speedometers stretch to a speed that’s illegal, and only race-car drivers will ever reach?

2. Such a device incorporating an odometer.

Translations

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

• Arabic: عداد سرعة
• Armenian: արագաչափ (hy) (aragačʻapʻ), սպիդոմետր (hy) (spidometr)
• Asturian: velocímetru m
• Belarusian: спідометр (spidómjetr)
• Bengali: স্পিডোমিটার (spiḍōmiṭar)
• Bulgarian: скоростомер (bg) (skorostomer)
• Burmese: မြန်နှုန်းပြကိရိယာ (mranhnun:pra.ki.ri.ya)
• Catalan: velocímetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車速錶 / 车速表 (chēsùbiǎo), 速度計 / 速度计 (zh) (sùdùjì), 速度錶 / 速度表 (zh) (sùdùbiǎo), 示速器 (shìsùqì)

• Danish: speedometer n
• Dutch: snelheidsmeter (nl) m
• Esperanto: rapidometro
• Faroese: ferðmálari m
• Finnish: nopeusmittari (fi)
• French: compteur de vitesse (fr)
• Galician: velocímetro (gl) m, contaquilómetros m
• Georgian: სპიდომეტრი (ka) (sṗidomeṭri)
• German: Geschwindigkeitsmesser (de) m, Tachometer (de) n or m, Tacho (de) m (colloquial)
• Hebrew: מדידת מהירות
• Hindi: चालमापी (cālmāpī)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: hraðamælir (is) m
• Irish: luasmhéadar m
• Italian: tachimetro (it) m
• Japanese: 速度計 (sokudokei), スピードメーター (supīdomētā)
• Kazakh: спидометр (spidometr)
• Khmer: ឧបករណ៍វាស់ល្បឿន (ʼŏbâkârn៍វាស់ល្បឿន)
• Korean: 속도계 (ko) (sokdogye)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: spidometras m
• Macedonian: брзиноме́р m (brzinomér)
• Malay: jangka laju, meter laju, spidometer
• Maori: ine-tere, inerere
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fartsmåler m, speedometer n

  Nynorsk: fartsmålar m, speedometer n

• Odia: ସ୍ପିଡୋମିଟର (spiḍomiṭara)
• Persian: سرعت‌سنج
• Polish: prędkościomierz (pl) m, licznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: velocímetro (pt) m
• Romanian: vitezometru (ro) n
• Russian: спидо́метр (ru) m (spidómetr)
• Serbo-Croatian: brzinomjer (sh) m
• Spanish: velocímetro (es) m, cuentakilómetros (es) m
• Swahili: spidometa
• Swedish: hastighetsmätare (sv) c
• Tamil: வேகமானி (vēkamāṉi)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: hız göstergesi
• Uzbek: spidometr (uz)
• Vietnamese: đồng hồ tốc độ

such a device incorporating an odometer

• Finnish: nopeusmittari (fi)
• German: Tachometer (de) m

Anagrams

• speedometre

Danish

Noun

speedometer n (singular definite speedometeret or speedometret, plural indefinite speedometre)

1. speedometer

Declension

Declension of speedometer

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	speedometer	speedometeret speedometret	speedometre	speedometerene
genitive	speedometers	speedometerets speedometrets	speedometres	speedometerenes

Further reading

• “speedometer” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from English (not the same gender as other Bokmål words ending in meter)

Noun

speedometer n (definite singular speedometeret or speedometret, indefinite plural speedometer or speedometre, definite plural speedometra or speedometrene)

1. a speedometer

Synonyms

• fartsmåler

References

• “speedometer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Probably from English (not the same gender as other Nynorsk words ending in meter)

Noun

speedometer n (definite singular speedometeret, indefinite plural speedometer, definite plural speedometera)

1. a speedometer

Synonyms

• fartsmålar

References

• “speedometer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.