Definition of "-meter" []

• Measuring device: anemometer. (suffix)

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• "Should it be Wilhelm Bruhn, the German inventor of the taxameter, a device that measured (the -meter part of the compound) distance or time, and calculated thereon a charge (taxa-)?"