Definitions | meter |
| noun
- (always ) A device that measures things.
- A parking meter.
- 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.
- (context, Prosody): The rhythm pattern in a poem.
verb
- To measure with a metering device
Etymology: From mètre, originally from (metron) "a measure".
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