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Gram vs Meter - What's the difference?

gram | meter |

gram measures mass and meter measures length


As a verb gram

is .

As a noun meter is

meter (unit of measure, 100 cm).

gram

English

Alternative forms

* gramme

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gramme, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g

    • See also

    * kilogram * milligram *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . From (etyl) .Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary. 1976. pp. 566

    Noun

    (-)
  • A group of leguminous plants that are grown for their seeds. pulses.
  • (uncountable) The seeds of these plants.

    • Anagrams

    *

    Etymology 3

    Diminutive of grandmother

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • grandmother

    • Etymology 4

    (etyl), akin to grim.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) angry
  • * Havelok the Dane
    • For he knew, the swike dam, / Euerildel God was him gram .

    Etymology 5

    Noun

    (-)
  • (US)

    • References

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    meter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter ) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * altimeter * centimeter * common meter * feed the meter * kilometer * long meter * metric * metrical * millimeter * odometer * pedometer * pentameter * short meter * spectropolarimeter * tachymeter * tetrameter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to measure with a metering device.
  • to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

    • Anagrams

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