wet meter

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wet meter - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Meter \Me"ter\, n. [From Mete to measure.]
     1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See
        Coal-meter.
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     2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording
        automatically, the quantity measured.
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     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.
  
     Wet meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a
        chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through
        it.
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