Meanings
nounpaymeter (plural paymeters)
plural paymeters
- A payment meter.
Free lighting and cooking has been installed as have two paymeters for gas fires.
1976, Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal1 more example
The paymeter at the main compressor station, which handles most of the SAPLM gas sales, also includes a recording gravitometer.
1957, Petroleum Management (volume 29, issue 3, page D-35)
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