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  1. Small portable instrument for counting the
  2. number of steps taken, and measuring the
  3. approximate distance covered by a person
  4. walking. Each step taken by the walker sets
  5. in motion a swinging weight within the
  6. instrument, causing the mechanism to rotate,
  7. and the number of rotations are registered on
  8. the instrument face.
  9.