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odometer

US and Canadian a device that records the number of miles that a bicycle or motor vehicle has travelled
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odometer

[ō′däm·əd·ər]
(engineering)
An instrument for measuring distance traversed, as of a vehicle.
The indicating gage of such an instrument.
A wheel pulled by surveyors to measure distance traveled.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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