(especially in compounds 尤用于构成复合词 a device that measures and records the amount of electricity, gas, water, etc. that you have used or the time and distance you have travelled, etc. （用于测量电、煤气、水等，以及时间和距离的）计量器，计量表 A man came to read the gas meter. 有个男子来查过煤气表。 The cab driver left the meter running while he waited for us. 在等我们的时候，出租车司机让计程表继续走字。 Installing a smart meter will allow you to see how much water you are using in real time. 安装一个智能电表可以让你实时看到你用了多少水。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- electricity
- gas
- …
- read
- check
- feed
- …
- run
- tick
- reader
- reading
- maid
- …
- (also parking meter)
a machine next to the road that you put money into when you park your car next to it 米： 当您将车停在路旁时，投入资金的道路旁的机器Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- electricity
- gas
- …
- read
- check
- feed
- …
- run
- tick
- reader
- reading
- maid
- …
- -meter
(in compounds 构成复合词 a device for measuring the thing mentioned 计；仪；表 speedometer 速度计 altimeter 高度表 calorimeter 热量计
- (US English) (British English metre)(abbreviation m)[countable]
a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres 测量长度的单位；100厘米 a 50-meter swimming pool 50米长的游泳池 an athlete running at 10 meters per second 一名运动员以每秒10米的速度奔跑
- (US English) (British English metre)(abbreviation m)[countable, uncountable]
used in the name of races 用于比赛的名称 - (US English) (British English metre)[uncountable, countable]
the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this （诗的）格律
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 Middle English (in the sense ‘person who measures’): from mete + -er. The current sense dates from the 19th cent.