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Definition of Gasometer
1. Noun. A meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe.
2. Noun. A large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel.
Definition of Gasometer
1. n. An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.
Definition of Gasometer
1. Noun. Any of various instruments used to measure the flow of gas through pipelines. ¹
2. Noun. A gasholder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gasometer
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Medical Definition of Gasometer
1. An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required. Origin: Gas. Cf. F. Gazometre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasometer
Literary usage of Gasometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1917)
"gasometer IN CONNECTION WITH REGULATOR. CHAS. L. BULLOCK, SUPT. ... By setting
this little device, which is a gasometer, putting about TOO pounds of weight ..."
2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1836)
"The gasometer is formed by several cylinders, sliding one within the other ...
A gasometer may be made, upon this plan, of any diameter, as there will be Bo ..."
3. Some Information Concerning Gas Lights by Thomas Cooper (1816)
"Method of correcting the relative pressure of the gasometer, ... WE have mentioned
already that the pressure of the gas in the gasometer should be ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"Should the pressure of the gas in the pipe proceeding from the gasometer, be less
than in the gasometer itself, this may be regulated by the main valve, ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"The gasometer a is a very large cylindrical vessel from 30 to 60 feet in diameter,
closed at the top and open at bottom; it is suspended by a rope and ..."
6. Wells's Natural Philosophy: For the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private by David Ames Wells, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1879)
"Another pipe, descending from the gasometer through the water, is continued ...
The gasometer is balanced by counter-weights supported by chains which pass ..."
7. A System of Instruction in Quantitative Chemical Analysis: From the Last by C. Remigius Fresenius (1879)
"25, represents a gasometer filled with air ; 5 a flask half-filled •with concentrated
sulphuric acid ; с and ao are chloride of calcium tubes ; d is a ..."
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