Definition of Power meter

1. Noun. A meter for measuring the amount of electric power used.

Exact synonyms: Electric Meter
Generic synonyms: Meter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Power Meter

power hunger
power inverter
power inverters
power jam
power law
power laws
power line
power line communication
power line communications
power lines
power loading
power loom
power looms
power lunch
power lunches
power meter (current term)
power module
power mower
power nap
power naps
power of appointment
power of attorney
power of termination
power off
power on
power outage
power pack
power packs
power pill
power pills

Literary usage of Power meter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"EXPERIMENT 4-C. — Study of an Indicating Reactive- power meter. — The theory is explained in the preceding section. Provide a source of two-phase power, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"The patent power-meter and continuous indicator, on the contrary, not only measures the power developed during a single stroke of the engine with as great a ..."

3. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"(1) Ayrton and Perry's Power-meter consists of a thick wire coil through which the ... EMF . in the power-meter the deflection is caused by the product of ..."

4. Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing: For Engineers and for by Rolla Clinton Carpenter, Herman Diederichs (1911)
"The Van Winkle power meter.—The Van Winkle power meter is shown complete in Fig. 224, and with its parts separated in Fig. 225. It consists of a sleeve with ..."

5. Dynamo-electricity: Its Generation, Application, Transmission, Storage and by George Bartlett Prescott (1884)
"AYRTON AND PERRY'S ELECTRIC power meter. This instrument, designed for measuring by one operation the horse power electrically given to any part of a ..."

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