tachometer

See also: Tachometer

English

Alternative forms

tachometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

tachy- +‎ -meter

Noun

tachometer (plural tachometers)

A device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile.
A device for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of blood, a river, a machine, etc.

Synonyms

rev counter

Related terms

(device for measuring velocity): speedometer

Translations

device for measuring rpm

Afrikaans: toereteller
Catalan: tacòmetre m, compta-revolucions m, comptavoltes m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 轉速表 (zh), 转速表 (zh) (zhuǎnsùbiǎo)
Danish: omdrejningstæller c
Dutch: toerenteller (nl) ?
Estonian: pöördeloendur
Finnish: kierroslukumittari, takometri (fi)
French: tachymètre (fr) m
German: Drehzahlmesser (de) m
Gujarati: વેગમાપક (vegmāpak)
Hindi: वेगमापी ? (vegmāpī)
Hungarian: fordulatszámmérő (hu)
Icelandic: snúningshraðamælir m
Italian: tachimetro (it) m
Japanese: 回転速度計 (kaitensokudokei)
Kannada: ವೇಗಮಾಪಕ (kn) ? (vēgamāpaka)

Korean: 회전계 (ko) (回轉計, hoejeongye), 회전속도계 (回轉速度計, hoe-jeon-sok-do-gye)
Macedonian: вртежомер m (vrtežomer)
Malay: takometer
Norwegian:
Bokmål: turteller m
Polish: obrotomierz m, tachometr m
Portuguese: tacômetro (pt) m
Romanian: tahometru (ro) n, turometru n (rare)
Russian: тахо́метр (ru) m (taxómetr)
Spanish: tacómetro (es) m, cuentarrevoluciones
Swedish: varvtalsmätare (sv)
Tagalog: inugsukat
Tamil: சுழற்சி அளவி (cuḻaṟci aḷavi), வேகமானி (vēkamāṉi)
Thai: เครื่องวัดวามเร็ว
Tibetan: ཤེད་འཕྲུལ་འགྲོས་ཁྲ། (shed 'phrul 'gros khra)
Turkish: devir saati
Vietnamese: máy đo tốc độ

device for measuring velocity — see speedometer

Related terms

tachymeter

Anagrams

tachometre

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