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Word: meter (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • (''always'' '''meter''') A device that measures things.
  • A parking meter.
  • US (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.
  • music an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
  • prosody The rhythm pattern in a poem.

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Verb:

  • To measure with a metering device.

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