-meter

Meter \Me"ter\, Metre \Me"tre\, n. [OE. metre, F. m[`e]tre, L.
   metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete}
   to measure.]
   1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses,
      stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on
      number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm;
      measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical
      arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
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            The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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   2. A poem. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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   3. A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the
      standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights
      and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly,
      the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to
      the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an
      arc of a meridian. See {Metric system}, under {Metric}.
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   {Common meter} (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines,
      making a stanza, the first and third having each four
      feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; --
      usually indicated by the initials C. M.

   {Long meter} (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines of four feet
      each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly
      indicated by the initials L. M.

   {Short meter} (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines, the first,
      second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third
      four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but
      is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the
      initials S. M.
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-meter \-me"ter\ [L. metrum measure, or the allied Gr. ?. See
   {Meter} rhythm.]
   A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as,
   barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
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Meter \Me"ter\, n. [From {Mete} to measure.]
   1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See
      {Coal-meter}.
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   2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording
      automatically, the quantity measured.
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   {Dry meter}, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with
      flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and
      measure the gas by filling and emptying.

   {Wet meter}, a gas meter in which the revolution of a
      chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through
      it.
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Meter \Me"ter\, n.
   A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is
   attached in order to strengthen it.
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194 Moby Thesaurus words for "meter":
      Alexandrine, Stabreim, VOM, VTVM, accent, accentuation,
      alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere-hour meter,
      amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise,
      appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor,
      bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate,
      caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb,
      chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer,
      count-rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl,
      dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide,
      dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
      elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator,
      evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom,
      feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist,
      graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter,
      hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus,
      illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence,
      intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor,
      lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer,
      megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot,
      metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron,
      mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement,
      moving-coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter,
      oscillation, pH meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter,
      pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion,
      plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic,
      prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify,
      quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance,
      recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme,
      rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size,
      size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey,
      surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter,
      tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple,
      thermoelectrometer, thesis, time-interval meter, topographer,
      triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
      undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer,
      vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh