cyclometer
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English
Etymology
Noun
cyclometer (plural cyclometers)
- (cycling) A device that counts the revolutions of a bicycle wheel in order to indicate distance travelled.
- Synonym: cyclocomputer
- 1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter IX, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. I: From San Francisco to Teheran, London: Sampson Low , pages 244–246:
- While here at Constantinople I received by mail from America a Butcher spoke cyclometer, and on the second visit to Prinkipo I measured the road which has been made around half the island; the distance is four English miles and a fraction.
- An instrument for measuring circular arcs.
- (historical) A machine used to decrypt Enigma machine ciphers.