Meter vs Meteor - What's the difference?
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(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.
(archaic) Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.'') These were sometimes classified as ''aerial'' or ''airy'' meteors (winds), ''aqueous'' or ''watery'' meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), ''luminous'' meteors (rainbows and aurora), and ''igneous'' or ''fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars [next]).
A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.
(juggling) A prop similar to poi balls , in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
(martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
As nouns the difference between meter and meteor
is that meter is meter (unit of measure, 100 cm) while meteor is meteor (streak of light caused by extraterrestrial matter entering the atmosphere).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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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.}}