odometer
Other forms: odometers
The instrument in your car that shows you how far you've driven is called an odometer. When you buy a used car, it's important to check the odometer to see how many miles it has traveled.
The odometers in today's cars are electronic, but there may be an odometer on any form of transportation, including your bike, and some of these may run mechanically. There's historical evidence that odometers were used in both ancient Greece and ancient China. In the seventeenth century, odometers measured the distance traveled by horse-drawn carriages. Odometer comes from the Greek roots hodos, "way," and metron, "a measure."
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a meter that shows mileage traversedsynonyms: hodometer, mileometer, milometertype of:meterany of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity
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Vocabulary lists containing odometer
At school, Zoey hopes no one will notice her. After school, she takes care of her younger siblings while her mom struggles to make ends meet. But when her social studies teacher asks Zoey to join the debate club, Zoey might finally learn to speak up for herself and her family.
Coyote and her dad have been living on the road since the deaths of her mother and sisters. When Coyote finds out that a park in her hometown is being demolished, she decides to trick her dad into returning so she can retrieve a memory box that she and her family once buried there.
This vocabulary list features words derived from the Greek metron meaning "measure."