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English
Etymology
From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter.
Pronunciation
Noun
odometer (plural odometers)
- An instrument, usually embedded within the speedometer of a vehicle, that measures the distance the vehicle has traveled since production.
2007 December 14, “"Price Is Right" winner claims new car a wreck”, in Reuters:When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised.
2014 July 29, Steve Gorman, “NASA's Mars rover sets off-Earth, off-road distance record”, in Reuters:On Sunday, the robot rover advanced another 157 feet (48 meters) as it continued along the rim of a Martian crater, putting Opportunity's total odometer at 25.01 miles (40.25 km), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California.
2025 April 17, Jonathan Stempel, “Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, US lawsuit claims”, in Reuters:Tesla (TSLA.O) faces a proposed class action claiming it speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk's company from having to pay for repairs.
- A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.
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instrument in a vehicle
- Albanian: odometr m
- Arabic: عَدَّادُ المَسَافَات m (ʕaddādu l-masāfāt)
- Azerbaijani: odometr
- Basque: odometro
- Belarusian: адо́метр m (adómjetr)
- Catalan: comptaquilòmetres m, hodòmetre m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 里程表 (lǐchéngbiǎo)
- Dutch: kilometerteller (nl) m
- Esperanto: hodometro, odometro
- Finnish: matkamittari (fi)
- French: odomètre (fr) m
- Galician: hodómetro m
- Georgian: ოდომეტრი (odomeṭri)
- German: Hodometer n, Odometer m, Kilometerzähler (de) m
- Alemannic German: Hodometer n
- Greek: οδόμετρο (el) n (odómetro)
- Ancient: ὁδόμετρον n (hodómetron)
- Hindi: पथमापी (pathmāpī)
- Hungarian: kilométeróra (hu), kilométer-számláló
- Ido: hodometro (io), odometer (io)
- Italian: contachilometri (it) m
- Japanese: オドメーター (ja) (odomētā)
- Kannada: ಓಡೋಮೀಟರ್ (ōḍōmīṭar)
- Kazakh: одометр (odometr)
- Korean: 오도미터 (odomiteo)
- Latvian: odometrs m
- Lithuanian: odometras m
- Macedonian: километражник m (kilometražnik)
- Malay: odometer, jangka jarak, meter jarak
- Malayalam: ഓഡോമീറ്റർ (ōḍōmīṟṟaṟ)
- Maori: ine-mamao, ine tawhiti
- Polish: drogomierz m
- Portuguese: odómetro (pt) m (Portugal), odômetro (pt) m (Brazil), hodómetro m (Portugal), hodômetro m (Brazil)
- Romanian: odometru (ro) n
- Russian: одо́метр (ru) m (odómetr)
- Spanish: odómetro (es) m, cuentakilómetros (es) m
- Swedish: vägmätare (sv), odometer (sv)
- Tamil: ஓடோமீட்டர் (ōṭōmīṭṭar)
- Thai: ออดอมิเตอร์
- Ukrainian: одо́метр m (odómetr)
- Urdu: مسافت پیما m (masāfat paimā)
- Uzbek: odometr
- Cyrillic: одометр (uz) (odometr)
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