A meter might also stop dead at the point of contact on shutting off the air, and so hold up the armature; thus preventing others from acting.
Of course, the record of each consumer's meter would be taken by the inspector at the end of every quarter, in order to make out the bill; and the totals thus obtained would be checked by the gross results indicated by the main dial.
Each consumer's meter is fitted with the contact-making apparatus shown in Pig.
It would be impracticable to employ an army of meter inspectors to take the records daily from all the meters in the district.
This action takes place on any meter completing a unit of measurement of (say) 1,000 cubic feet, at which point the contact makers touch.
As the price of a cubic meter is 30 centimes, the carcel will cost 0.
What is called a kilogrammeter is the force capable of lifting 1 kilogramme to 1 meter in height during 1 second.
The expense per carcel, with the cubic meter of gas at 30 centimes, is therefore 0.
As to the dimensions, it is easy to judge of these, since the laborer standing to the left of the spectator holds in his hand a meter measure serving as a scale.
An ampere meter and a commutator are introduced between the battery and the electrolysis apparatus; the former affording an excellent indication of the progress of the electrolysis.
There was no shunt wire in the volt meter as there was in the ammeter.
Notice that the volt meter needle moves according to the speed of revolution.
The meter showed that it allowed only one quarter of an ampere to pass.
I now connect my instrument as a volt meter between the binding posts of the cell and you see it indicates 1.
If now that much is understood, it will be easy to learn how the water faucet may be used to measure water pressure and the volt meterin like manner used to measure electric pressure.
Evidently the volt meter is merely an ammeter with a different scale marked upon its card.
Notice that, when I put one cell upon this volt meter the needle shows 1.
The volt meter indicates 110 volts and the ammeter shows that one ampere is passing.
We connected in series a fluid cell (to be described later), the ammeter, and the volt meter (Fig.
Such a scale would adapt this volt meter for use with our 110-volt lighting circuit.
We will connect in series the ten cells, making a battery which you see by the volt meter gives fifteen volts of pressure.
Hence, our volt meter will not quite correctly show what the voltage of a single cell would be on open circuit.
The results are only too clearly apparent; the meter is often slovenly, the narrative structure highly defective, and the characterization superficial or flatly inconsistent.
In plays of serious tone he often turns to blank verse, and this is the meter of 'All for Love.
She not seldom mistakes enthusiasm or indignation for artistic inspiration, and she is repeatedly and inexcusably careless in meter and rime.
Ossian's meter consisted of a mixture of narrative verses of his own invention and other lyrical verses answering to the sense.
Had he but known it, it was to be many days before he was to go after that offender on the 1200 meter wave lengths and then it was to be in ways of which he had not yet dreamed.
The operator in the hotel was sending on 1200 meter wave lengths.
There was not a station in the city licensed to send 1200 meter wave lengths.
If this person at the hotel persisted in sending messages on 1200 meter wave lengths an important message might at any moment be blurred or lost.
They were sent with exceedingly high power and on 600 meter wave lengths.
Its antennae, hung high upon the building's roof, were capable of carrying that 1200 metermessage with all that power behind it, but the radio equipment of the hotel had no such power.
There had been no answer though Curlie had listened long for it on 1200 meter wave lengths and five other lengths as well.
Fellow's sending 600 meter waves, with enough power to cross the Atlantic.
Shut down for changes in size of meter and piping.
Look at this--" He pointed to themeter on his counter, then stopped, gawked at the instrument and shook it.
The meter flicked placidly along at the barely-above-normal background level count.
I knew that the meter was out back in the field, near the deserted road where I had learned to drive.
All I knew about the water meter was that it was somewhere toward the back of our land, near the road.
Can you imagine," one seemed to hiss indignantly, "Thinks she can find the meter we've got hidden!
I stood on our private road, in a rocky tire-rut, and began to flash the beam of the flashlight systematically across the field in such a way that the light had finally covered every foot of the area in which I thought the meter must be.
They knew where the meter was, all right, but they had no intention of letting me in on the secret.
A soft copper wire one meter long and one millimeter in diameter has an electrical resistance of .
Matthiessen's standard for resistance of copper wire is as follows: A hard drawn copper wire one meter long, weighing one gramme, has a resistance of .
Most of this track was in 5-meter lengths, although many shorter sections were used.
A millimeter is one one-thousandth part of a meter, and a meter is 39.
It's like the quarter you put in the gas-meter before you get any gas.
The gas meter was in a very large lumber cupboard under the kitchen stairs.
The meter stood on the floor, which was littered with hampers and boxes and odd sheets of brown paper.
Nevertheless, Hewitt took no apparent notice of it, but stooped down and solemnly tapped the meter three times with his pencil, and listened with great gravity, placing his ear to the top.
After a half-hour of this he gave up the idea of taking the meter apart, but his soul immediately became possessed of another idea, which was to see if it worked.
Generally, a reading on the meter twice the current background reading indicates that the patient is contaminated.
He grinned with satisfaction when the distance meter showed nine nine five point five on the nose.
Danley worked the controls until both his velocity meters read zero, and the distance meter read exactly one kilometer.
The Bernesque Capitoli were invariably written in terza rima, which at this epoch became the recognized meter of epistolary, satirical, and dissertational poetry throughout Italy.
Its conventional meterwas terza rima, handled with exquisite sense of rhythm, but degraded to low comedy by the treatment of trivial or vulgar motives.
This is seen especially in his surpassingly beautiful ode to evening, "The silent moon is risen," written in the same spirit and meter as Gerhardt's famous evening hymn.
The meter was unusual, and she was unable to find music to fit the words.
Weakly and jerkily the man was able to tell how, as he was going forward, a large calibre shell fell less than a meter in front of him and exploded.
A number of chasseurs were doing the “tortoise-shell” under bombardment, when the last chasseur in the line was blown forward above his comrades by a shell bursting about a meter behind him.
The shell exploded and seriously injured a soldier onemeter away.
On October 26, a shell burst one meter in front of him, burying him under the anterior wall of the trench.
Thus a man died from having both his lungs burst from the effects of a shell exploding a meter away.
Shell explosion (1 meter distant) kills a soldier by bursting both lungs within the intact thoracic cage.
Scotty and I saw three of them once, and it's a cinch they were using a survey meter to check the ground for radioactivity.
It contained a built-in instrument with a meter and earphones.
If more than 1 meter long the hind toe short and elevated; if less than 1 meter long the hind toe not elevated.
Less than 1 meter long, usually much less; the hind toe if present, short and elevated, or if long the claws excessively long and wings spurred .
This specimen started within a meter of the head of the collector, and flew less than three meters before alighting.
When ready to lay, the female tunnels into this mound, sometimes even burrowing into the solid ground to a depth of half a meter or more, so that the eggs are one to two meters below the surface of the mound.
