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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science, art, or practice of measuring gases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry The
measurement ofgases ; the determination of the relativeproportion of gases in amixture .
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It is essential in gasometry to fix upon some standard pressure to which all measurements can be reduced.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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