gasholder

English

Etymology

From gas +‎ holder.

Noun

gasholder (plural gasholders)

1. A large cylindrical tank used for storing gas, especially town gas (1870s-1940s) or natural gas (1950s-present). Types include one with telescopic sections with wet seals in between and one with a nontelescoping tank and a dry seal.

Synonyms

• gasometer

Holonyms

• gasworks, gas works

Related terms

• gas cylinder, gas tank, fuel tank

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: حَامِل أَلْغَاز m (ḥāmil ʔalḡāz)
• Bulgarian: газоме́р m (gazomér)
• Catalan: gasòmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤氣鼓 / 煤气鼓 (méiqìgǔ)

• Czech: plynojem m
• Danish: gasbeholder c
• Dutch: gashouder (nl) m
• Esperanto: gasujo
• Estonian: gaasimahuti
• Finnish: kaasukello (fi)
• French: gazomètre (fr) m
• German: Gasbehälter m, Gasspeicher (de) m, Gasometer (de) m
• Greek: αεριοφυλάκιο (el) n (aeriofylákio)
• Hebrew: מכל גז m (mekhal gaz)
• Hungarian: gazométer (hu), gáztartály (hu)
• Ido: gasometro (io)
• Italian: gasometro (it) m
• Japanese: ガスタンク (gasu-tanku)
• Korean: 가스 계량기 (gaseu gyeryanggi)
• Macedonian: гасомер m (gasomer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gassklokke f

  Nynorsk: gassklokke f

• Polish: gazometr m
• Portuguese: gasómetro m, gasômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: gazometru (ro) n
• Russian: газго́льдер (ru) n (gazgólʹder)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гасометар m

  Roman: gasometar m

• Slovak: plynojem m
• Spanish: gasómetro m
• Swedish: gasklocka c, gasometer (sv) c, gasbehållare (sv) c
• Turkish: gaz tutucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: газго́льдер n (hazhólʹder)

See also

• water tower