Word Finder - metre

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To measure with a metering device.

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To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.

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To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

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The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39 47/127 (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.

The line is of metre gauge.

A lens of twice its strength has a refractive power of 2 D, and a focal length of half a metre, and so on.

The line is of m metre gauge, with steel rails weighing 212 kilos (42 lb) per yard.

The next step was the introduction of metre into the body of the sentence and the restriction of the passages to a definite length.

From the observed motion of the node of Venus, as shown by the four transits of 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882, is found Mass of (earth +moon) _Mass of sun 332600 In gravitational units of mass, based on the metre and second as units of length and time, Log.

This metre was employed in ritual hymns, which seem to have assumed definite shapes out of the exclamations of a primitive priesthood engaged in a rude ceremonial dance.

They are distinguished by artistic form, purity of expression and strict attention to the laws of metre and prosody, qualities which, however good in themselves, do not compensate for want of originality, freshness and power.

The corresponding intensity at the sun's surface is 4.62 X Io 4 as great, or 6.79 X Io 4 kilowatts per square metre = 7.88 X Io 4 horse-power per square yard - enough to melt a thickness of 13.3 metres (=39.6 ft.) of ice, or to vaporize 1.81 metres (=5.92 ft.) of water per minute.

To the classical scholar the metre alone is of interest.

The Delphian poetess Boeo attributed to him the introducion of the cult of Apollo and the invention of the epic metre.

The principal units of length, weight and volume are the metre, gramme (or gram) and litre.

The latter has an average calorific power of 1732 calories per cubic metre, or 161 B.T.U.

At Stockholm the rate of elevation is approximately 0.47 metre (=1.54 ft.) in a century.

For the restricted use of "metre" as a unit of measurement, see Metric System below.

The last part, Hattatal, a treatise on metre, was written for Earl Skuli about 1222, in imitation of Earl Rognvald and Hall's Hattalykill (Clavis metrica) of 1150.

Another commission was also appointed to draw up a system of weights and measures based on the length of the metre and to fix the nomenclature, which on the report of the commission was established in 1795.

This was followed by the law of the 10th of December 1799 fixing definitely the value of the metre and of the kilogramme, or weight of a litre of water, and the new system became compulsory in 180r.

The object of the Bureau is to make and provide prototypes of the metre and kilogramme, for the various subscribing countries.

This remarkable poem, written in the metre of the old Servian ballads, gives a vivid description of life in Bosnia under Turkish rule, and of the hereditary border feuds between Christians and Moslems. In later life Mazuranic distinguished himself as a statesman, and became ban of Croatia from 1873 to 1880.

True coal has also been obtained in the same district, the deposits varying from a third to half a metre in thickness.

It is written in pure Baiswari or Eastern Hindi, in stanzas called chaupais, broken by dohas or couplets, with an occasional soratha and chhand - the latter a hurrying metre of many rhymes and alliterations.

The leaves as a rule far exceeded in size those of any of the Coniferae, attaining in some species a length of a metre.

With a view to this, it has become increasingly common of late years to publish not the voltages actually observed, but values deduced from them for the potential gradient in the open in volts per metre.

Liideling (9) found for the mean value for 1904 in volts per metre 242.

These mean values, ranges and amplitudes are all measured in volts per metre (in the open).

He supposes the field near the earth to be ioo volts per metre, or 1/300 electrostatic units.

A is the upper end of a glass tube, half a metre or so in length, which is clamped in a vertical position.

Each play has an argument in metre by Sulpicius Apollinaris (2nd century of our era).

But there is immense wit, a wonderful command of such metre and language as the taste of the time allowed to the poet, occasionally a singular if somewhat artificial grace, and a curious felicity of diction and manner.

The other feature, peculiar to the long poem (gasida, elegy), is that, whatever its real object, whatever its metre, it has a regular scheme in the arrangement of its material.

Owing principally to differences in the length of the inch in various countries this method had great inconveniences, and now the unit is the refractive power of a lens whose focal length is one metre.

There is no English metre with this peculiar cadence.

The metre was also employed in commemorative poems, accompanied with music, which were sung at funeral banquets in celebration of the exploits and virtues of distinguished men.

In the next century we have Velius Longus's treatise De Orthographia, and then a much more important work, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, and (c. 200) a treatise in verse by Terentianus, an African, upon Latin pronunciation, prosody and metre.

The old chant of the Salii, called axamenta, was written in the old Saturnian metre, in language so archaic that even the priests themselves could hardly understand it.

Schott gives the following as the result of measurements of transparency by means of a white disk at 23 stations in the open ocean, where quantitative observations of the plankton under i square metre of surface were made at the same time.

Underneath is the true floor of the cave, a mass of homogeneous yellow clay, one metre in thickness.

They studied criticism, grammar, prosody and metre, antiquities and mythology.

He also put into elegiac metre, in 106 epigrams, some of Augustine's theological dicta.

Reiske's linguistic knowledge was great, but he used it only to understand his authors; he had no feeling for form, for language as language, or for metre.

A battery of 11-inch howitzers was Metre fist established only one mile away.

The siege was now pressed with vigour by the construction of batteries at and around 203 Metre, by an infantry advance against the main western defences, and by renewed operations against the eastern forts.

There are several quite distinct forms of metre, of which those most commonly used are the Klong, the Kap and the Klon.

Of the little love songs in Klon metre, called Klon pet ton, there are many hundreds.

A fourth poetical metre is Chan, which, however, is not so much used as the others.

The metre is discussed first, each verse is scanned, and each word thoroughly and instructively examined.

He announced the existence of hydrogen, among other elements, in the sun's atmosphere in 1862, and in 1868 published his great map of the normal solar spectrum which long remained authoritative in questions of wave-length, although his measurements were inexact to the extent of one part in 7000 or 8000 owing to the metre which he used as his standard having been slightly too short.

The two standards, the cubic inch and the cubic decimetre, may not be strictly comparable owing to a difference in the normal temperature (Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales) of the two units of extension, the metre and the yard.

For the metre of the form shown in fig.

The International Geodetic Committee have adopted the metre as their unit of measurement.