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Gasometer

noun
1.
A meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe.  Synonym: gas meter.
2.
A large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel.  Synonym: gas holder.





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"Gasometer" Quotes from Famous Books



... suburban edge of a very old, very ignorant, very sooty, hardhearted, stony-streeted, meanly grim, little provincial town there stands a gasometer. On one side of this gasometer begins a region of disappointed fields, which, however, has hardly begun before a railway embankment cuts across, at an angle convenient for its entirely obscuring the few meadows and trees that in this desolate land do duty for a countryside. The ...
— The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] • Richard Le Gallienne
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Words linked to "Gasometer" :   storage tank, tank, gas holder, meter


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