odometer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter.

"Now as nearly as I can learn there was no exact way of estimating distances by any of those travelers--the speedometer was not invented, nor the odometer, nor the ship's log. — The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, Emerson Hough
She could only guess at the distance she had been carried for she could not believe in the correctness of the high figures that had been piled upon the record of her odometer. — The Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
II.--From Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fé, by the way of the upper ferry of the Kansas River and the Cimarron. [In this table the distances, taken by an odometer, are given in miles and hundredths of a mile. — The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes) Marcy

hodometer, mileometer, milometer

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