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gas meter
noun
- an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.
gas meter
noun
- an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas passed through it
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gas meter1
First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences
There are narrow, ten-foot-high bushes just beyond the gas meter.
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Electric meters read in kilowatt hours, just as a water meter reads in gallons and a gas meter in cubic feet.
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It will be observed that up to the present point the gas meter itself has played no part in the discussion.
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Last night I happened to fall into conversation with a young Irishman who had come to read the gas-meter in my house.
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He it was who invented a gas purifier, liquid gas meter, and other useful contrivances.
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He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes.
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