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tachometre

tachometre is the alternative form of tachometer.

Meaning of tachometer

Noun

tachometer (plural tachometers)

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

Forms of tachometre

pluraltachometres

Origin of tachometre

From tacho- + -metre.

Questions about tachometre

What is tachometre the alternative form of?
Tachometre is the alternative form of tachometer.

Words near tachometre in the dictionary

  1. tachograms
  2. tachograph
  3. tachographs
  4. tachometer
  5. tachometers
  6. tachometre
  7. tachometres
  8. tachometric
  9. tachometrically
  10. tachometry
  11. tachos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tachometre (page history and authors); tachometer (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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