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hodometrical, a.|hɒdəʊˈmɛtrɪkəl|
[f. Gr. ὁδός way + µετρικός metric + -al1.]
1. Relating to the measurement of a ship's ‘way’, i.e. the distance traversed by it.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Hodometrical..is the Method of Computation of the Measure of the Way of a Ship between Place and Place..and what Way she has made. 1753in Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hodometrical, [applied to] a method of finding the longitude at sea by dead reckoning.
2. (Also odometrical.) Belonging to an odometer.
1847Craig, Odometrical. 1882Ogilvie, Hodometrical, 1. Pertaining to a hodometer. Ibid., Odometrical. |