How to Use tachometer in a Sentence

tachometer

noun
  • Through the first half of the tachometer's sweep, the exhaust snarls distantly.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The analog tachometer is flanked by two 7-inch screens.
    Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • One is for boost, one is a voltmeter, and the third is a sort of tachometer for the turbochargers.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2021
  • In sport mode, the display changes to show an analog tachometer.
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2018
  • That keeps the engine on all the time, cracks the whip on the gear changing, stiffens the steering, and gives you a tachometer readout.
    Al Haas, Philly.com, 14 July 2017
  • Moreover, all this power hangs out at the screaming end of the tachometer, well over 4,000 rpm.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • My preferred setting was that of a tachometer, or rev counter.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2018
  • Between the tachometer and speedometer is a new, 7.0-inch display screen.
    Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2020
  • To be a decent street engine, the Valkyrie's had to make a solid chunk of its power much lower on the tachometer.
    Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2019
  • Porsche is happy to apply red threading to the seats and the steering wheel for a small fee, and the black tachometer can be swapped out for a red-faced one.
    Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 5 Oct. 2017
  • In the Si, the driver faces a gauge cluster with an analog speedometer and a digital tachometer to the left.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Unfortunately, this large four-cylinder idles with the clatter of a diesel and is boomy through the top half of the tachometer.
    Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The tachometer is dead center, a tell on the 911's priorities.
    Jeffrey G. Russell, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • When Sport mode is selected, a tachometer is shown and colors change to red to reflect the sense of sportiness.
    Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 11 May 2017
  • The speedometer and tachometer dials are spider-webbed with cracks from exposure to the sun.
    Keith Uhlig, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
  • On the inside, a fuzzy dash pad covered most everything but the tachometer and speedometer.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2020
  • When the driver changes driving modes, the screen shows a different layout for the speedometer and tachometer.
    Dallas News, 7 May 2020
  • But the aurality of the car has been universally keyed to the tachometer.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Inside, there's a unique gauge cluster without a tachometer and a battery cooling duct between the back seat and the right rear door.
    Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Damaged and beyond use was the tachometer, which was to have registered the vessel’s speed of descent.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Chrome rings surround the speedometer, the tachometer, and the fuel and temperature gauges.
    Bradley Nevin, Car and Driver, 3 June 2020
  • An analog speedometer and tachometer frame a small but easy-to-read 4.2-inch info display.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The instrument panel has a screen between the speedometer and tachometer that can show speed, trip info, current mileage, and the like.
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Revs climb ever quicker as rpm builds, the timbre rising with the tachometer needle.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 1 July 2021
  • The speedometer and tachometer are round, side-by-side, non-digital, and easily read.
    David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • And Ars readers will be glad to know there is not a single touchscreen in the T.50—all the controls are analog, as is the big tachometer directly in front of the driver.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Hurtling into the triple digits, the McLaren makes the landscape blurrier until the tachometer’s climb hovers near 8,000 rpm.
    Basemwasef, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
  • Unfortunately, this large four-cylinder idles with the clatter of a diesel and is alarmingly boomy through the top half of the tachometer.
    Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 8 July 2020
  • The instrument cluster is different with the tachometer in the middle.
    Alisa Priddle, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Among other things, the Trieste’s tachometer, which measured how fast the submarine was descending, broke before the mission even began.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023

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