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  • n  speedometer for measuring the speed of an aircraft relative to the speed of sound

  • The machmeter, which measures speed in multiples of the speed of sound, went slightly above Mach 2.
  • Captain Apt had been told not to watch his machmeter, the common speed-measuring instrument.

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