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Webster 1913 Edition

Pedometer

Pe-dom′e-ter

,
Noun.
[
Pedi-
,
pedo-
+
-meter
: cf. F.
pédomètre
.]
(Mech.)
An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pedometer

PEDOM'ETER

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Noun.
[L. pes, the foot, and Gr.measure.] An instrument by which paces are numbered as a person walks, and the distance from place to place ascertained. It also marks the revolutions of wheels. This is done by means of wheels with teeth and a chain or string fastened to the foot or to the wheel of a carriage; the wheels advancing a notch at every step or at every revolution of the carriage wheel.

Definition 2024

pedometer

pedometer

English

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Noun

pedometer ‎(plural pedometers)

  1. A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
    He thought that buying a pedometer would spur him on to exercise.

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Etymology

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, Latin combining form for "foot", plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο ‎(podómetro)).

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