Noun

(en noun)

(always meter ) A device that measures things.

(always meter ) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

gas meter

(always meter ) (dated) One who metes or measures.

(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

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(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

(chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

(obsolete) A poem.