meter
IPA: mˈitɝ
noun
- A device that measures things.
- A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- (dated) One who metes or measures.
- (American spelling) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds.
- (American spelling) The overall rhythm of a song or poem; particularly, the number of beats in a measure or syllables in a line.
- (obsolete) A poem.
- (American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
verb
- To measure with a metering device.
- To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
- To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).
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Examples of "meter" in Sentences
- The three meter invertebrate was filmed.
- The diameter of the pipeline is over a meter.
- The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet.
- The depth of foliage must be in the units of meters.
- The most common type of meter measures kilowatt hours.
- The meter then measures the color of the strip optically.
- The derived unit of volume in SI is thus the cubic meter.
- The difficulty in measuring the meter was the error in fringe counting.
- Another meter measures the instantaneous value of the radiation intensity.
- It measures the same on the meter as grasping the two leads with two hands.
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