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-meter  suff.  A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"-meter" Quotes from Famous Books



... supply of pure water, it must be brought into the building through a water-meter to the cold water cistern, which should be at a sufficiently high level to obtain a good "head." This cistern must be capacious and properly connected, on the ordinary circulating principle, with a hot water ...
— The Turkish Bath - Its Design and Construction • Robert Owen Allsop

... bedroom, and began to see to her hat. This meant blowing at it with short sharp puffs. Leonard tidied up the sitting-room, and began to prepare their evening meal. He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes. Somehow he could not recover his temper, and all the time he was cooking he continued to ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster

... objective statement of brightness values which would enable another experimenter with ease and certainty to repeat my tests. The nearest approach that it is possible for me to make to such an objective measurement is a statement of the composition and thickness of the filters and of the candle-meter value of the light when it entered the filter. The distance from this point to the entrance to the electric-box was ...
— The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes

... angle of 120 deg., and for a change of current the wheel, r, describes an angle of 60 deg., that is to say, a sixth of a circumference. The motion of r is transmitted, by means of the pinion, d, and the wheel, e, to the wheel, T. For a one-meter variation in level the wheel, T, makes one complete revolution. It is divided into 100 equal parts, and each arc therefore corresponds to a difference of one centimeter in the level, and carries, engraved ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various



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