meter
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈmiːtər/
- Specialized
:
metro
- The distance from the park to my house is exactly 300 meters.
- square meter
- cubic meter
- meters per second
And just one meter could possibly save your life.
- And just one meter could possibly save your life.
- If I'm a metre away from him, I can't disarm him.
- A Joule is the energy in MKS units, MKS meters, kilograms, seconds units.
- In the real world, I could turn a pole of N metre size.
Examples
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Distance: Seven meters.
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And just one meter could possibly save your life.
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This is at least three meters above sea level.
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Two hundred meters, top of the Ridge, left of the tree.
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Move the bucket 20 meters.
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Enter the passage second to your left, and just continue straight for 50 meters.
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What drew him and his colleagues to Eight Mile Lake is a 27-meter-deep hole in the ground.
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The vehicle is rated for depths of 4,000 meters, or about 2.5 miles.
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The intake for a public drinking water supply was approximately 200 meters offshore from the creek outlet.
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The erosion rate in unprotected areas was about 4 meters per year between 1985 and 1998.
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Synonyms
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The symbol for the meter, the basic unit of length in the metric system
Compounds
12
2.3
A machine by a parking space that takes coins or cards to let you park for a short time
1
3.4
A device that measures and records how much electricity a home or business uses
- Literature
1
8.5
A four-line poem pattern with alternating long and short lines used in hymns and ballads
- Specialized
1
3.6
A device that measures how much electricity a circuit or appliance uses
- Archaic
A historical measure of length equal to the length of a pendulum that takes one second to swing
- Specialized
A device with a pointer that moves evenly as the measured value changes
- Specialized
A tool that measures how strongly the Earth pulls on things in different places
- Archaic
A former unit of length based on a pendulum that swings once in one second
How Small
- Archaic
- Specialized
7
4.8
- Specialized
2
4.8
- Specialized
140
2.5
- US
92
1.0
- Specialized
621
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- US
572
1.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Meter comes from the Greek metron, meaning 'measure', and it became the name for a standard length. So a meter is a fixed 'measure' used to find distance.