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An instrument that measures how rapidly a shaft or other rotating component turns.
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- engine tachometer
- tachometer reading
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The tachometer reading climbed while the engine's pitch remained unchanged.
She watched the tachometer instead of trusting the sound behind the wall.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular tachometer; plural tachometers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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