gasometer
noun
gas·om·e·ter
ga-ˈsä-mə-tər 
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2
: a laboratory apparatus for holding and measuring gases
Examples of gasometer in a Sentence
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In 1884, 40 years after Horace Wells first demonstrated that nitrous oxide could relieve pain, Amos Long, a Michigan dentist, patented this gasometer.
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Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
Lavoisier wears a plain black frock coat and sits at a table with a quill pen in his hand, and with papers and glass instruments (a gasometer, a barometer) before him.
—Cynthia Saltzman, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Some conversation, mostly inaudible due to the map, about a gasometer.
—Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
Lavoisier wears a plain black frock coat and sits at a table with a quill pen in his hand, and with papers and glass instruments (a gasometer, a barometer) before him.
—Cynthia Saltzman, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Some conversation, mostly inaudible due to the map, about a gasometer.
—Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
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Word History
Etymology
French gazomètre, from gaz + -o- + -mètre -meter
First Known Use
1808, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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gasometer
noun
gas·om·e·ter
ga-ˈsäm-ət-ər
: a laboratory apparatus for holding and measuring gases
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