meters

Meaning of meters

plural noun
  1. a device that measures and records the quantity, degree, or rate of something.
    an electricity meter
verb, 3rd person present
  1. measure or regulate by means of a meter.
    the huge capital outlay required to meter every household is not available
    predictions that electricity would soon be too cheap to meter went unfulfilled

Middle English (in the sense ‘person who measures’): from mete1 + -er1. The current sense dates from the 19th century.

plural noun
  1. the SI base unit of length (equivalent to approximately 39.37 inches), first introduced as a unit of length in the metric system.
    sit two metres away from the TV screen
    the wall was less than a metre high

late 18th century: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.

plural noun
  1. the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.
    the Horatian ode has an intricate governing metre
    unexpected changes of stress and metre

Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’.

Information about meters

  • The singular form of meters is: meter.
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Hyphenation of meters

me-ters

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • meters is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of meters

merest, mester, restem, retems, temser, Termes, termes

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