Word Meanings - METER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 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

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1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 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. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• METERGRAM
  A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
• MEASURING
  Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• METERAGE
  The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• METER; METRE
  1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• MEASURABLE
  1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• VACUOMETER
  An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
• ACIDIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
• PNEUMONOMETER
  A spirometer; a pneumometer.
• ALTIMETER
  An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
• PNEOMETER
  A spirometer.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• AUXOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.
• ALGOMETER
  An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try , n. -- Al`go*met"ric , *met"ric*al , a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• ATMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.
• BAROCYCLONOMETER
  An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
• AZOTOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.
• HODOMETER
  See ODOMETER
• DIATHERMOMETER
  An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.
• MISMETER
  To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. Chaucer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• MICRONOMETER
  An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
• TINTOMETER
  An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.