Define the word Dry meter"Dry meter" gcide "The 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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