What is the difference between kilometer and meter?
kilometer | meter | Derived terms |
(always meter ) A device that measures things.
(always meter ) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
(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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, title= (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.
Meter is a derived term of kilometer.
As nouns the difference between kilometer and meter
is that kilometer is standard spelling of from=American spelling|lang=en while meter is (always meter) A device that measures things.As a verb meter is
to measure with a metering device.meter
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Alternative forms
* metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)Noun
(en noun)- gas meter
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