speedometer

English

Alternative forms

• speedometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

speed +‎ -o- +‎ -meter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɪˈdɑː.mə.t̬ɚ/, /spiːˈdɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɑmədəɹ

Noun

speedometer (plural speedometers)

1. A device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle.
   • 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.

2. Such a device incorporating an odometer.

Synonyms

• (device that measures speed): speedo, tachometer, velocimeter

Translations

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

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

  Mandarin: 车速表 (chēsùbiǎo); 速度计 (zh) (sùdùjì); 速度表 (zh) (sùdùbiǎo)

• Danish: speedometer n
• Dutch: snelheidsmeter (nl) m
• Esperanto: rapidmezurilo
• Faroese: ferðmálari m
• Finnish: nopeusmittari (fi)
• French: compteur de vitesse (fr)
• Galician: velocímetro 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)

• Kazakh: спидометр (spïdometr)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• 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

• Oriya: ସ୍ପିଡୋମିଟର (spiḍomiṭôrô)
• 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 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

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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.

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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.