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Answer for the clue "Something taken from a meter ", 7 letters:
reading

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Word definitions for reading in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reading is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bertice Reading (1933–1991), American singer Burnet Reading (1749–1838), English engraver John Reading (disambiguation) , several people of the name Peter Reading (born 1956), English poet Pierson ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reading \Read"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. Reading book , a book for teaching reading; a reader. Reading desk , a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "he enjoys reading books" a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave ...

Usage examples of reading.

It seemed to Smith, upon reading the individual reports, that many of them would have been absolved before their cases got beyond the deputy level, so flimsy were the accusations made against them.

It matters not whether he is professional or amateur, so he is untouched by academicism and has not done so much reading or writing as to impair his mental digestion and his clarity of vision.

I must confess that I am only acquainted with the peculiarities of the male by theory and reading.

Sometimes personal messages were forwarded in multiple copies, by regular interstellar couriers, the service sometimes duplicating and reduplicating the message without reading it, and sending copies on to different places, as often happened when the exact location of the addressee was unknown.

David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.

On the motion for the second reading, which was moved on the 2nd of June, a debate was commenced, which continued by adjournment for two nights.

Accordingly, on the 12th of February, on the proposal of the second reading, government opposition was offered: the debate, after an adjournment, was resumed on the 15th, and continued through that day and the next, when the bill was thrown out by an overwhelming majority.

He checked the indexes and methodically began reading everything he could find about agnosia and amaurosis, with the uncomfortable impression of being an intruder in a field beyond his competence, the mysterious terrain of neurosurgery, about which he only had the vaguest notion.

There was aphasia, loss of speech, alexia, loss of reading, agraphia, loss of writing, and agnosia, loss of recognition.

The first album recorded was of the poet Charles Olson reading from his new book Maximus IV, V, VI, as well as parts of the Mayan Letters and other works.

Tuli Kupferberg, the percussionist with the Fugs, already had an album out of his readings from bizarre advertisements, and the remaining Fug, Ed Sanders, was down for a future poetry album.

Jonas resumed his reading aloud, Marc perched on a replacement stool and climbed down from time to time to add charcoal to the fire or make minute adjustments to the alembic, the contents of which seemed to change not at all.

According to the altazimuth readings the stars will not be more favorable to this thing for days.

In a storm, when the air pressure sank, you had to offset that drop against the altimetric reading, and very often it was a crude rule-of-thumb calculation.

Accustomed to reading nuances of speech and slight gestures of body language in order to survive with Amalgamated, Judit had picked up far more from that brief, inconclusive meeting than Viggers had actually said.