pedometer

Significado (Inglés)

A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.

Sinónimos

step counter

pedimeter

land travel

pitchometer

infant scale

distance recorder

mileage counter

mileage table

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/pɪˈdɑmətɚ/
Etimología (Inglés)

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.

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