meter, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

meter (meters plural & 3rd person present) (metering present participle) (metered past tense & past participle )

1 n-count A meter is a device that measures and records something such as the amount of gas or electricity that you have used.
He was there to read the electricity meter...

2  verb To meter something such as gas or electricity means to use a meter to measure how much of it people use, usually in order to calculate how much they have to pay.
Only a third of these households thought it reasonable to meter water...  V n
Metered taxis are relatively inexpensive.  V-ed

3 n-count A meter is the same as a parking meter.

4
→ metre

parking meter (parking meters plural )A parking meter is a device which you have to put money into when you park in a parking space. n-count
(=meter)