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(always meter) A device that measures things.
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(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
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(always meter) One who metes or measures.
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a labouring coal-meter
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(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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(elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
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(elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
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(elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
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A poem.