METER

meter. Meter, n. a person appointed to mete, a measurer

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Me″ter (?), n. [[From Mete to measure.]] 1. 1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
2. 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.
Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. — Wet meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.