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Definition of Electric meter
1. Noun. A meter for measuring the amount of electric power used.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electric Meter
Literary usage of Electric meter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by National Electric Light Association (1911)
"Is it possible for an electric meter to register accurately for a period, then
register too fast for any considerable period, then return to accuracy? ..."
2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1913)
""Whenever request for the inspection and test of any gas or electric meter shall
be made to the Board of Control by or on behalf of the person on whose ..."
3. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"Meter, Electric-Time An electric meter in which the current ... (See Meter,
Electric) Meter, Energy A term sometimes applied to a watt meter. ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The first electric meter was the Edison chemical meter, used extensively in the
early ... A form of electric meter in wide u«e is a recording watt-meter, ..."
5. Electric Lighting: A Practical Exposition of the Art, for the Use of by Francis Bacon Crocker (1906)
"Ordinarily, however, the term meter or electric meter, unless combined with
another word, means an instrument to record, register, or integrate current in ..."
6. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"The designers of the new meter have taken the gas-meter as their model, and sought
to obtain in an electric meter, together with greater correctness of ..."
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