A device in a vehicle that measures how far it has traveled.
From Greek "hodo-" meaning "way, road" and "-meter" meaning "measure." It literally means "road-measurer."
The "odo" part is the same root as in "method" (meta + hodos = "after the way"). An odometer quietly turns every trip you take into data about your movement through space.
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