cyclometer

[ sahy-klom-i-ter ]

/ saɪˈklɒm ɪ tər /

an instrument that measures circular arcs.

a device for recording the revolutions of a wheel and hence the distance traversed by a wheeled vehicle; odometer.

Origin of cyclometer

First recorded in 1805–15; cyclo- + -meter

cy·clo·met·ric

[sahy-kluh-me-trik] /ˌsaɪ kləˈmɛ trɪk/, adjective

The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken.

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure |Edward Hooker Dewey
A boy in Massachusetts who broke this rule broke his right arm and his cyclometer at the same time.

Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 |Various
I can tell, because Ive got a cyclometer that registers the truth.

The Motor Boys Over the Rockies |Clarence Young
For another month we bicycled leisurely around Paris and added two or three hundred miles to our cyclometer record.

The New Glutton or Epicure |Horace Fletcher

It is singular that no cyclometer maintains that Archimedes hit it exactly.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) |Augustus de Morgan

cyclometer

/ (saɪˈklɒmɪtə) /

a device that records the number of revolutions made by a wheel and hence the distance travelled

cyclometry, noun