dromometern.

Etymology: < Greek δρόμος course: see -meter comb. form². Compare French dromomètre (1858).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: droˈmometer.

A measurer of speed; a pocket instrument, serving to check the indications of the dromoscope.

ΚΠ

1881 Nature 7 July 225/2 Colonel Leboulangé will exhibit..his ingenious dromometer and dromoscope for controlling the velocity of trains.

Derivatives

droˈmometry n. the measurement of velocity.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > course > course made good in specific direction > measurement of speed

dromometrya1687

a1687 W. Petty in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 658* Dromometry, and the Measures of a Ships Motions at Sea.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	dromometer
释义	dromometern. Etymology: < Greek δρόμος course: see -meter comb. form². Compare French dromomètre (1858).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: droˈmometer. A measurer of speed; a pocket instrument, serving to check the indications of the dromoscope. ΚΠ 1881 Nature 7 July 225/2 Colonel Leboulangé will exhibit..his ingenious dromometer and dromoscope for controlling the velocity of trains. Derivatives droˈmometry n. the measurement of velocity. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > course > course made good in specific direction > measurement of speed dromometrya1687 a1687 W. Petty in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 658* Dromometry, and the Measures of a Ships Motions at Sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1687
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