gasometer

[ UK /ɡæsˈɒmɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe
  2. a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel
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How To Use gasometer In A Sentence

  • When thoroughly washed, it flows through the pipe, L, into the gasometer, which is of galvanized iron, and is very carefully balanced. Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
  • Well, I probably wont be tuning in and doing another enraged dance about the remaining episodes….and yet, there is a strange fascination, bit like watching a slomo car crash dummy test, or the demolition of a gasometer or such like. Primeval: S3 Ep7 – Updated Pondering « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
  • Four stout posts, much taller still than the "bandbox" itself, were set at equal distances around it, and their extremities were joined by stout beams which passed across over the top of the gasometer. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
  • Near the gasometer is the hydraulic machine for supplying with water the tank on the top of the house; all the other services on this line of pipe are screwed off, and thus the water is forced to the top of the building. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852
  • The expired gas was measured in a wet gasometer.
  • The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges. Gasometers Reimagined as Apartment Community
  • What could be better than, instead of tearing down its one remaining - and in aesthetic terms, extremely attractive - gasometer, to keep it, and supplement its worth by bringing other fine examples from across the UK to join it?
  • The fourth side of the square was occupied by a gas-works whose gasometer looked down on its neighbours. COFFIN IN FASHION
  • RT @VariousArch @bryanboyer: What will be the 2000s gasometer? Ballardian » Twitter links, part 2
  • Each gasometer was divided into several zones for living (apartments in the top), working (offices in the middle floors) and entertainment and shopping (shopping malls in the ground floors). Gasometers Reimagined as Apartment Community
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