Definitions for tachometer

tachometer ta·chom·e·ter

Spelling: [ta-kom-i-ter, tuh-]
IPA: /tæˈkɒm ɪ tər, tə-/

Tachometer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 629 anagrams from letters in tachometer (aceehmortt).

Definitions for tachometer

noun

  1. any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
  2. an instrument measuring revolutions per minute, as of an engine.

Origin of tachometer

First recorded in 1800-10; tacho- + -meter

Examples for tachometer

It is driven by a 220-volt motor connected to a tachometer which reads both meters per second and revolutions per minute.

It had been suggested that the revolutions in Africa occurred so often that only a tachometer could keep up with them.

A tachometer was also employed to observe the number of turns that the screw was making in a minute.

He watched his tachometer, which indicated his revolutions per minute.

There is a gear which serves to drive the magnetos and tachometer, also the air pump.

The engine was next started and the number of revolutions of the propellers counted by a tachometer.

I guess the first thing that Lindy watched was the tachometer.

His clock and his tachometer assured him that he was well past Easton.

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