How to Use tachometer in a Sentence

tachometer

noun

• My preferred setting was that of a tachometer, or rev counter.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2018
• In sport mode, the display changes to show an analog tachometer.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2018
• Through the first half of the tachometer's sweep, the exhaust snarls distantly.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
• On the inside, a fuzzy dash pad covered most everything but the tachometer and speedometer.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2020
• The speedometer and tachometer dials are spider-webbed with cracks from exposure to the sun.
  — Keith Uhlig, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• But the aurality of the car has been universally keyed to the tachometer.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• When the driver changes driving modes, the screen shows a different layout for the speedometer and tachometer.
  — Dallas News, 7 May 2020
• Moreover, all this power hangs out at the screaming end of the tachometer, well over 4,000 rpm.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But edge deeper into the throttle and that small block wakes up, clearly preferring the higher end of the tachometer.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Chrome rings surround the speedometer, the tachometer, and the fuel and temperature gauges.
  — Bradley Nevin, Car and Driver, 3 June 2020
• The tachometer is dead center, a tell on the 911's priorities.
  — Jeffrey G. Russell, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
• The instrument cluster is different with the tachometer in the middle.
  — Alisa Priddle, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• Because of this, the car had to be equipped with a digital tachometer to display engine speed, since an analog version couldn’t keep up.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 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
• Downshifts never upset the chassis; sometimes the only way to know if a downshift has occurred is to look at the tachometer.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• The sport instrument cluster had a large tachometer in the center, flanked by the speedometer and gas and temperature gauges.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 21 Dec. 2017
• The modes, which change colors of the tachometer, adjust the level of steering assist and damping for sportier handling.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 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
• Directly in front of the driver is a huge, 270° electrical tachometer.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• This genre-defying book of compressed prose, poetry and image is the product of a mind — and heart — pushing the artistic tachometer to the red line.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• Once the roads open and the Miura’s tachometer sweeps past 4,000 rpm, your ears are nourished by a cultured snarl that builds to a hammering roar.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 18 May 2026