A meter for measuring the amount of electric power used.
1 The first electric meter was invented quite by accident.
2 He couldn't pay household bills and was struggling to put money on the electric meter .
3 Meanwhile, Clutching Hand was standing by the electric meter .
4 As he flashed his pocket electric bull's-eye about, his gaze fell on the electric meter .
5 My electric meter box is lying on the ground.
6 After an unusually high previous power bill, they checked the electric meter half way through the month.
7 The electric meter occupied a place on the wall of the scullery not far from the door.
8 Is it a broken electric meter ?
9 Can you read an electric meter ?
10 The lab also had to work on improving electrical generators and developing an electric meter to bill the eventual customers.
11 He takes the key to the generator shed from inside the electric meter box, and the keys to the house from inside the shed.
12 And all the gas and electric meters are down in the basement.
13 Retarded clocks are sometimes employed as electric meters for registering the consumption of electricity.
14 Dynamos, types of lamps and conductors, electric meters , safety fuses, and other appliances had to be invented.
15 Fuji and GE plan to supply electric meters for utilities and other clients that move to build smart grids.
16 'Actually, can you just go and check the state of the electric meter too,' I said.
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