Other forms: odometers
An odometer is the dial counting how far a vehicle has travelled. Check the odometer, the odometer reading, a wound-back odometer.
Winding one back to hide the mileage is a crime called clocking, and it is much harder on digital instruments than it was on mechanical ones, though not impossible. The Greek behind it means a road measure.
1nounodometerThe dial counting how far a vehicle has travelled.
“The odometer showed that the car had done over two hundred thousand kilometres.”
odometer is an instrument.
Greek hodos, a road, plus metron, a measure, through French.
Ancient Greek
ὁδός — road, path, way
French
odomètre
English, today
odometer
Built from
From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (“road, path, way”) + μέτρον (“measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA