pedometer
UK/pɪˈdɒmətə//pɪˈdɑmətɚ/
pedometer noun: a device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
Noun
pedometer (plural pedometers)
- 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.
- A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time.2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022
pedometer meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Malay
pedometer in Tamil
- காலடித் தொலைவுக் கணக்குமானி, தூணளவி
pedometer in Kannada
- ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯಳೆಕ
pedometer in Malay
- device
- pedometer
Forms of pedometer
| plural | pedometers |
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Origin of pedometer
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, combining form for Latin pēs (“foot”), plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro)). By surface analysis, pedo- (“foot”) + -meter = pedo- + -ometer.
Questions about pedometer
- What does pedometer mean?
- Pedometer means a device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
- What is pedometer in Tamil?
- Pedometer in Tamil is காலடித் தொலைவுக் கணக்குமானி, தூணளவி. See Pedometer meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pedometer?
- Pedometer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pedometer?
- Pedometer is pronounced /pɪˈdɑmətɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of pedometer?
- The plural of pedometer is pedometers.
Words near pedometer in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedometer (page history and authors); pedometer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pedometer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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