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单词 passometer
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passometern.

Brit. /ˌpaˈsɒmᵻtə/, /pəˈsɒmᵻtə/, U.S. /pæˈsɑmədər/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin passus , -ometer comb. form.
Etymology: < classical Latin passus (see pace n.1; compare also pass n.1) + -ometer comb. form. Compare earlier pedometer n.
Now rare.
= pedometer n. 1.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring distances > distance travelled
waywiser1651
perambulator1688
wheel1696
walking wheel1701
odometer1702
pedometer1723
pedometer1728
podometer1728
reel measure1803
viameter1845
roadometer1848
trocheameter1857
trechometer1858
cyclometer1880
pedimeter1890
passometer1902
sledge-meter1902
speedometer1929
mileometer1953
1902 World-wide Evangelization (Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions) App. A. iv. 635 Articles useful for missionaries on [sic] the field... 1. Compass. 2. Passometer.
1910 Times 3 Dec. 14/3 Detective Rawlinson asked them to turn out their pockets. Perry handed over a passometer.
1921 Geogr. Jrnl. 58 89 In order to judge distance we calculated that our baggage camels..marched 4 kms...an hour, but we checked this by using passometers and measuring paces.
1992 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 31 May 8 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will begin marketing a portable radio with a built-in passometer on June 1. The RF–G800 model can measure up to 19,999 steps.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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