Meter

Noun

 * 1) (always meter) A device that measures things.
 * 2) A parking meter.
 * 3)  (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
 * 4)  an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
 * 5)  The rhythm pattern in a poem.

Related terms

 * altimeter
 * centimeter
 * feed the meter
 * kilometer
 * metric
 * metrical


 * millimeter
 * odometer
 * pedometer
 * pentameter
 * spectropolarimeter
 * tachymeter
 * tetrameter

Verb

 * 1) To measure with a metering device.

Adjectives for Meter
(instrument)

mystic; unconventional; inaccurate; dainty.

Verbs for Meter
check—; feed—; flood—; —allots; —ap¬points; —apportions; —appraises; —assess¬es; —assizes; —compounds; —dispenses; —estimates; —graduates; —measures; —' portions; —plumbs; —probes; —proportions; —records; —scales; —values.

Thesaurus
Alexandrine, Stabreim, VOM, VTVM, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere-hour meter, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise, appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate, caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer, count-rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide, dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator, evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom, feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist, graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor, lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer, megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement, moving-coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter, oscillation, pH meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic, prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify, quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size, size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey, surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple, thermoelectrometer, thesis, time-interval meter, topographer, triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer, vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh

Alternative forms

 * metre (for noun senses 3 to 5)

Etymology
From mètre: from  μέτρον:

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Arabic: (ʕaddād)
 * Armenian:, չափիչ
 * Chinese: 計量表 (jì liáng biǎo)
 * Czech: metr
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Messgerät
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: mérőóra
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: メーター (mētā), 計量器 (けいりょうき, keiryōki)
 * Korean: 계량기 (gyeryanggi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: اندازه‌گیر, سنجه
 * Polish: miernik
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: metru (instrument), contor
 * Russian: счётчик, измеритель
 * Scottish Gaelic: inneal-tomhais
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: метар
 * Roman: metar
 * Spanish: medidor,, metro
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:


 * Arabic: (mitr)
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 米 (mǐ)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מטר (meter)
 * Hindi: मीटर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: metro
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: メートル, ㍍ (mētoru)
 * Korean: 미터 (miteo)
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: meter
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: מעטער (meter)


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:


 * Polish:
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 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Japanese: 韻律
 * Macedonian:

Anagrams

 * metre
 * remet
 * retem

Noun

 * 1) meter, metre (a distance of 100 centimeters. The base unit of the metric system).
 * 2) meter (a device that measures things).

Noun

 * 1) godmother

Noun

 * 1) metre (unit of length)

Verb

 * 1) to put

Etymology
mittere

Verb

 * 1) to put, to insert
 * 2)  to meddle, interfere

Etymology
mittere:, present active infinitive of mitto:.

Related terms

 * metete
 * metiche
 * metido
 * misión
 * admitir
 * cometer
 * emitir
 * omitir
 * permitir
 * prometer

Derived terms

 * meter la cuchara

Noun

 * 1) a metre; the SI-unit
 * 2)  Rhythm or measure in verse
 * 3) a meter; a device that measures things.

Noun

 * 1) meter