gas meter
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.
Origin of gas meter
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How to use gas meter in a sentence
There are narrow, ten-foot-high bushes just beyond the gas meter.
The Man Oswald First Tried to Kill Before JFK | Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis | October 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTElectric meters read in kilowatt hours, just as a water meter reads in gallons and a gas meter in cubic feet.
Electricity for the 4-H Scientist | Eric B. WilsonIt will be observed that up to the present point the gas meter itself has played no part in the discussion.
The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900 | VariousLast night I happened to fall into conversation with a young Irishman who had come to read the gas-meter in my house.
Maida's Little Shop | Inez Haynes IrwinHe it was who invented a gas purifier, liquid gas meter, and other useful contrivances.
Inventions in the Century | William Henry Doolittle
He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes.
Howards End | E. M. Forster
British Dictionary definitions for gas meter
an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas passed through it
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