tachymeter
IPA: tˈækʌmitɝ
noun
- A surveying instrument for quickly finding distances.
- A speed indicator; a tachometer.
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Examples of "tachymeter" in Sentences
- Ok, so there is a difference between tachometer and tachymeter.
- With a stopwatch, date display, tachymeter and chronograph dials, how does it look this good?
- Features a cool dark blue dial, Japanese Miyota movement, tachymeter scale, and a silver/black bracelet.
- The tachymeter scale can be used to compute the speed - between 60 and 330 km/h - travelled over one kilometre.
- Its tachymeter function used to convert time intervals to speed or rates of events is etched around the rim of the analog face.
- Features scratch resistant and anti-reflective crystal, tachymeter scale around the bezel and is water resistant to 100 meters.
- Introduced in 1960 and named for the Daytona International Speedway, it retains most of its original features (three chronographic subdials and a tachymeter on the bezel), though it's now driven by a spankin'-new movement.
- Hodinkee: "In 1972, Heuer launched a promotion with the Viceroy brand of cigarettes to sell a distinctive self-winding caliber 12 Autavia with a black dial, red hands, and a tachymeter bezel (like on the Siffert Autavias) for $88 to those that sent in one carton end flap."
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