Gasometer
Alternative forms
- gasometre nonstandard
Full definition of gasometer
Noun
gasometer
(plural gasometers)- (chemistry, now historical) An apparatus used to store or measure gas or the flow of gas, particularly in a laboratory setting. from 18th c.
- 2012, Holger Ursin, Psychobiology of Stress: A Study of Coping Men (ISBN 0323158994), page 85:The collected air was metered through a gasometer, and the composition of every gas sample was analyzed in duplicate ...
- A large tank or reservoir for storing gas; a gasholder. from 19th c.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace (New York Review Books 2006), page 93:The attack on the gasworks was probably the most risky, as none of the rebels had any idea of just what kind of blast an exploding gasometer might produce ...