Definitions for meters
meters
me·ter
Spelling: [mee-ter]
IPA: /ˈmi tər/
Meters is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 109 anagrams from letters in meters (eemrst).
Definitions for meters
noun
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the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
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Music.
the rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value.
the unit of measurement, in terms of number of beats, adopted for a given piece of music. Compare measure (def 14).
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Prosody.
poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses.
a particular form of such arrangement, depending on either the kind or the number of feet constituting the verse or both rhythmic kind and number of feet (usually used in combination):
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an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
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parking meter.
verb (used with object)
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to measure by means of a meter.
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to process (mail) by means of a postage meter.
Origin of meters
1790-1800; French mètre Greek métron measure
Examples for meters
The chamber, which was about a metre square, was filled with a thick damp clay.
The ordinary name would have fitted the metre quite as well.
With the renewal of imagination and sentiment came a renewal of language and of metre.
I wonder you were not startled with the metre, though maimed a bit.
The metre of Lyrics is in the main the same as that of Wisdom poetry.
Clearly their constancy to this metre was not the result of any technical deficiency.
The gas clings to the earth in a layer about half a metre thick.
She saw that I had no idea of metre, so she proceeded to teach me.
Neither their metre, nor language, nor thought had taken definite shape.
In the metre which so came to him he afterwards composed his Ramayana.