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stress meter Instrument for measuring pressure changes in rocks, that result from mining operations. The stress meter has a steel shaft with a groove containing glycerine. When pressure is exerted the glycerine is squeezed on to a diaphragm which pushes a strain gauge to measure the movement.
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Meters return today, at a lower dosage; Drivers are taking a wait-and-see approach to the reactivation of ramp meters.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 12/8/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...spokesman for the ramp meter study. The list of meters staying off may change...she had under the old meter strategy. She said turning off the meters doubled her commuting...changes The changes to the meter timing will be made by...
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Meter management program boosts utility revenues. (Pikeville, Kentucky)
Magazine article from: Public Works; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...replacement of all residential meters. The program also includes scheduled meter testing and maintenance. Commercial Meters. The contractor first tested...commercial water and gas meters. As part of the overall meter management program, the...
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Ephrata meters score bet in New Era survey
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 7/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...extra seconds. A meter violation here...Lititz. Of 10 meters tested, five gave...30 minutes. All meters tested were mechanical. A meter violation is...which came from meter violations. Another...comes from the meters themselves. Columbia...
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Meter madness; Lancaster's antiquated parking meters have been driving people crazy for years. A New Era survey discovers just how unreliable they are. Now, the city intends to replace all of them by summer's end.
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 7/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...checked every parking meter in the city. "All 900 meters," said Tom Matthews...That one electronic meter gave 30 seconds less...promised. The 11 mechanical meters failed. Five came up short. One mechanical meter gave only 14 minutes...
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 "Erie Times-News (Erie, PA)")
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Meter money in deep freeze.
Newspaper article from: Erie Times-News (Erie, PA); 2/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...quarters in the parking meter. "It's a pain in...are not feeding parking meters because of the snowdrifts...ticketing for parking meter violations because of...are issued for parking meters, Massing said he can...15 below zero and the meter maids are out there walking...
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Miscoded glucose meters can cause significant errors.(Medical Devices)
Magazine article from: Adverse Event Reporting News; 3/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...with a blood glucose meter to plan their meals...miscoded blood glucose meters, the probability...2 units with the meters that do not require...which a blood glucose meter is matched to each...correctly code their meters or be advised to use a blood glucose meter that does not ...
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Parking meters leave a fine mess.
Newspaper article from: Erie Times-News (Erie, PA); 4/27/2005; 700+ words
; ...tickets Erie's parking meter problems may not be...s 2,000 parking meters, as required by state law. The meters are not certified...tickets for parking meter violations on Tuesday...difference in the use of meters Tuesday. "When I...
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Meter-reading becomes automatic - and then some.
Magazine article from: Public Works; 6/1/1995; 700+ words
; ...called basis. Other meters can transmit the...radio signal to a meter reader walking down...What's New in Meters and Flow Measurement...advances in automatic meter reading (AMR...wide range of water meters and automatic meter reading systems...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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METER READINGS GO HIGH-TECH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/2/1999; 683 words
; ...year-old water meter system with high-tech meters that can be read...three full-time meter readers more efficient...approximately 26,000 meters in Albany in about...laying off any meter readers in the...installing the new meters and eventually...
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Meter test inspection paper or electronic? (In-Line Pipeline Inspection).
Magazine article from: Pipeline & Gas Journal; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...regardless of size of the meter gas volume flow, or...the frequency at which meters are tested. Listed below...considered in determining the meter test frequency: * Size...This group uses the meter test information to adjust...Maintenance Issues--The meters used to measure the gas...
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Badger Meter, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...3824 Water & Gas Meters; 3823 Industrial Process Control Flow Meters & Instruments; 7389 Remote Meter Readers; 3491 Industrial...incorporated the Badger Meter Manufacturing Company...frost-proof water meters for measuring water...
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SIC 3824 Totalizing Fluid Meters and Counting Devices
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...component of the meter, which tallies...displacement meters used for registering...totalizing fluid meter segment, followed by meters for registering...measure; improved meter maintenance performance...toward solid-state meters with no moving...
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E-Meter
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
E-Meter Common term for a device known as an "electropsycho-meter," invented by Volney Mathison in the United States...in each hand, and strongly emotive thoughts cause a meter needle to register a dramatic change from zero. In the...
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meter
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...third in the 1,000 meters. DERIVATIVES: me...intricate governing meter | unexpected changes of stress and meter. ∎...used: they read the meters once a month...measure by means of a meter: a metered supply...
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Health O Meter Products Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Health O Meter Products Inc. 24700 Miles Road Beford Heights...Companies, Not Elsewhere Classified Health O Meter Products Inc. designs, manufactures...venerable Mr. Coffee subsidiary. Health O Meter purchased Mr. Coffee in 1994, increasing...
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