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Definition: Meter |
MeterNoun1. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards). 2. Any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity. 3. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. 4. Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time. Verb1. Measure with a meter; "meter the flow of water". 2. Stamp with a meter indicating the postage; "meter the mail". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "meter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Etymology: Meter \Me"ter\, Metre \Me"tre\, noun. [Old English metre, French m[`e]tre, Latin metrum, from Greek; akin to Sanskrit m[=a] to measure. See Meteto measure.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Meter |
19th Century Satire | The gas man's trysting place. "Meet her in the cellar!" Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Aerospace | 1. (Abbreviation m) The basic unit of length of the metric system, defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the unperturbed transition 2p10 - 5d5 in krypton. Effective 1 July 1959 in U.S. customary system of measures, 1 yard = 0.9144 meter, exactly, or 1 meter = 1.094 yards = 39.37 inches. The standard inch is exactly 25.4 millimeters.2. A device for measuring, and usually indicating, some quantity. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A meter which adds up, i. e. integrates, the electrical energy used over a period of time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A device for measuring levels and volumes of a customerós gas andelectricity use. (references) |
Mining | A. An instrument, apparatus, or machine for measuring fluids, gases, electric currents, etc., and recording the results obtained; e.g., a gasmeter, a watermeter, or an air meter b. The fundamental unit of length in the metric system equal to 39.37079in or 3.2808 ft e.g., a gasmeter, a watermeter, or an air meter. (references) |
Shipping | 39.37 inches (approximately). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In literature, meter is a term used in the scansion of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them. For instance, "iambic pentameter", "dactylic tetrameter", etc.
Greek and Latin Poetry
The metrical "feet" in the classical languages were based on the length of time taken to pronounce each syllable, which were categorized as either "long" syllables or "short" syllables. The foot is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to whole notes and half notes. In English poetry, feet are determined by emphasis rather than length, with stressed and unstressed syllables serving the same function as long and short syllables in classical meter.The basic unit in Greek and Latin prosody is a mora, which is defined as a single short syllable. A long syllable is equivalent to two moras. A long syllable contains either a long vowel, a diphthong, or a short vowel followed by two or more consonants. Various rules of elision sometimes prevent a grammatical syllable from making a full syllable.
Technical terms in poetic meter
- caesura: A caesura (literally, a cut or cutting) refers to a particular kind of break wtihin a poetic line. In Latin and Greek meter, caesura refers to a break within a foot caused by the end of a word. In English poetry, a caesura refers to a sense of a break within a line, sometimes indicated by extra whitespace between words. Caesuras play a particularly important role in Old English poetry.
- Inversion: When a foot of poetry is reversed with respect to the general meter of a poem, it is referred to as an inversion. This term is usually only used for the first foot in a line.
- Headless: A headless meter is one where the first foot is missing its first syllable.
Disyllables
- pyrrhus or dibrach: two short syllables
- iamb: Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
- trochee or choree: A metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
- spondee: A poetic foot of two long syllables
Trisyllables
- tribrach: three short syllables
- anapest: A poetic foot of two short syllables followed by a long one.
- amphibrach: short-long-short
- bacchius: short-long-long
- dactyl: A poetical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented
- amphimacer or cretic: long-short-long
- antibacchius: long-long-short
- molossus: long-long-long
Tetrasyllables
The most important Classical metre is the dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homer and Vergil. This form uses verses of six feet. The first four syllables are dactyls, but can be spondees. The fifth syllable is always a dactyl. The sixth is either a spondee or a trochee. The initial syllable of either foot is called the ictus, the basic "beat" of the verse. There is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot. The opening line of the Æneid is a typical line of dactylic hexameter:
- tetrabrach or proceleusmatic: short-short-short-short
- quartus paeon: short-short-short-long
- tertius paeon: short-short-long-short
- minor ionic, or double iamb: short-short-long-long
- secundus paeon: short-long-short-short
- diamb: short-long-short-long
- antispast: short-long-long-short
- first epitrite: short-long-long-long
- primus paeon: long-short-short-short
- choriamb: long-short-short-long
- ditrochee: long-short-long-short
- second epitrite: long-short-long-long
- major ionic: long-long-short-short
- third epitrite: long-long-short-long
- fourth epitrite: long-long-long-short
- dispondee: long-long-long-long
/ x x,/ x x,/ || x,/ x, / x x, / x Arma virumque canô, Trôjæ quî prîmus ab ôrîs
The first and second feet are dactyls; their vowels are grammatically short, but long in poetry because both are followed by two consonants. The third and fourth feet are spondees, with two long vowels, one on either side of the caesura. The fifth foot is a dactyl, as it must be, with the ictus this time falling on a grammatically long vowel. The final foot is a spondee with two grammatically long vowels.
- ("I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy. . . ")
The dactylic hexameter was imitated in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Evangeline:
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.Also important in Greek and Latin poetry is the dactylic pentameter. This was a line of verse, made up of two equal parts, each of which contains two dactyls followed by a long syllable. Spondees can take the place of the dactyls in the first half, but never in the second. The long syllable at the close of the first half of the verse always ends a word, giving rise to a caesura.
Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation. Rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the Greek and Latin world. An example from Ovid's Tristia:
/ x x / x / x / x / x x / x Vergilium vîdî tantum, nec amâra Tibullô / x x / x x/ | / x x / x x / Tempus amîcitiae fâta dedêre meae.
The Greeks and Romans also used a number of lyric meters, which were typically used for shorter poems than elegiacs or hexameter. One important line was called the hendecasyllabic, a line of eleven syllables. This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form. A hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure: two trochees, followed by a dactyl, then two more trochees. In the Sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an "Adonic" line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee. This is the form of Catullus 51:
- ("I only saw Vergil, greedy Fate gave Tibullus no time for me.")
/ x / x / x x/ x / x Ille mi par esse deo videtur; / x / x / x x / x / x ille, si fas est, superare divos, / x / x / x x / x / x qui sedens adversus identidem te / x x / x spectat et audit. . .
The Sapphic stanza was imitated in English by Swinburne in a poem he simply called Sapphics:
- ("He seems to me to be like a god; if it is permitted, he seems above the gods, he who sitting across from you gazes at you and listens to you.")
Saw the white implacable Aphrodite, Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled Shine as fire of sunset on western waters; Saw the reluctant. . .
English Poetry
Most English meter is classified according to the same system as Classical meter with an important difference: stressed and unstressed syllables take the place of long and short syllables. The most frequently encountered line of English verse is the iambic pentameter, five iambic feet per line. The verse portions of Shakespeare's plays, John Milton's Paradise Lost, most sonnets, and much else besides in English are written in iambic pentameter. A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet, a verse form which was used so often in the eighteenth century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect.Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two lines of iambic tetrameter followed by two lines of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes. This is the meter of most of the Border and Scots or English ballads, and a great many hymns, such as Amazing Grace:
Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see.but perhaps the poet who put this form to best use was Emily Dickinson:
Great streets of silence led away To neighborhoods of pause; Here was no notice — no dissent — No universe — no laws.Old English poetry has a different metrical system. In Old English poetry, each line must contain four fully stressed syllables, which often alliterate. The unstressed syllables are less important. Old English poetry is an example of the alliterative verse found in most of the older Germanic languages.
French Poetry
In French poetry, meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line. A silent 'e' counts as a syllable, except at the end of a line. The most frequently encountered meter in French is a line of six feet called the alexandrine.
Spanish Poetry
In Spanish poetry, meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line. Syllables in Spanish metrics are determined by consonant breaks, not word boundaries, so a single syllable may include multiple words. For example, the line De armas y hombres canto consists of 6 syllables: "De ar" "mas" "y hom" "bres" "can" "to."Some common meters in Spanish verse are:
See also: Alexandrine, Dactylic hexameter, Elegiac couplet, Hendecasyllable, Heroic couplet, Iambic pentameter
- Heptasyllable: A line consisting of seven syllables.
- Octosyllable: A line consisting of eight syllables. This meter is commonly used in romances, narrative poems similar to English ballads.
- Hendecasyllable: A line consisting of eleven syllables. This meter plays a similar role to pentameter in English verse. It is commonly used in sonnets, among other things.
- Alexandrines: A line consisting of twelve syllables. This is frequently used in epic poetry.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meter (poetry)."
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This page is about the metre as a unit of measurement. For other uses see Metre (disambiguation)
The metre (symbol: m, spelled meter in American English) is the SI base unit of length. It is defined as the length of path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. See 1 E0 m for comparisons of the length of a metre.
Multiples
SI prefixes are used to name multiples and subdivisions of the metre. The most commonly used ones are:
- kilometre = 1,000 metres
- decametre = 10 metres (rare)
- centimetre = 1/100 metre
- millimetre = 1/1000 metre
- micrometre (formerly micron) = 1 millionth of a metre
- nanometre = 1 billionth of a metre
- picometre = 10-12 of a metre
- femtometre = 10-15 of a metre
History
The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French Academy of Sciences as 1/10,000,000 of the distance along the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the Equator along the meridian of Paris and on April 7, 1795 France adopted the metre as its official unit of length. Uncertainty in the measurement of that distance led the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1889 to redefine the metre as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of platinum-iridium kept at Sevres.
In 1960, as lasers had become available, the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures changed the definition of metre to be the length of 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the orange-red emission line in the spectrum of krypton-86. In 1983 the General Conference on Weights and Measures defined the metre as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second (that is, the speed of light in a vacuum was defined to be 299,792,458 metres per second). Since the speed of light in vacuum is believed to be the same everywhere, this definition is easier to maintain and more consistent than a measurement based on the circumference of the Earth or the length of a specific metal bar. Thus, should the bar be destroyed or lost, the standard meter can still be easily recreated in any laboratory. It also has the advantage that it can (at least in theory) be measured with far greater precision than the circumference of the earth or the distance between two lines.
See also: SI, conversion of units
External Links
- Conversion Calculator for Units of LENGTH
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Metre."
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Metre is the measurement of a musical line into units such as beats and measures, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. Properly, "metre" describes the whole concept of measuring rhythmic units, but it can also be used as a specific descriptor for a measurement of an individual piece as represented by the time signature -- for example, "This piece is in 4/4 metre" is equivalent to "This piece is in 4/4 time" or "This piece has a 4/4 time signature."There are four different types of metre: simple duple (ex. 4/4), simple triple (ex. 3/4), compound duple (ex. 6/8), and compound triple (ex. 9/8). If each beat in a measure is divided into two parts, it is simple meter, and if divided into three it is compound. If each measure is divided into two beats, it is duple meter, and if three it is triple. Some people also label quadruple, while some consider it as two duples. The latter is more consistent with the above labeling system, as any other division above triple, such as quintuple, is considered as duple+triple (12123) or triple+duple (12312), depending on the accents in the musical example. However, in some music a quintuple may be treated and perceived as one unit of five, especially at faster tempos.
Most popular music is in 4/4 time, though often may be in 2/2 or cut time such as in bossa nova. Doo-wop and some other rock styles are frequently in 12/8, or may be interpreted as 4/4 with heavy swing. Similarly, most concert music before the 1900's was in 4/4, 3/4, 6/8 or other simple metre. More recent concert music switches meter frequently, such as some music by Igor Stravinsky; has no meter at all, such as drone based music exemplified by La Monte Young; or is based on additive rhythms, such as some music by Philip Glass.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Metre (music)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Par meter | English | Peak-to-average ratio meter | Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MeterSynonyms: beat (n), cadence (n), m (n), measure (n), metre (n), time (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Length | Nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km. |
Measurement | Measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo. |
Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). | |
Poetry | Verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation; (voice); dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus. |
Elegiacs; Adjective: elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry. | |
Velocity | Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Janice Van Meter got hit with a baseball (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) I ate a piece of gum off a parking meter once (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Lyrics | And once we start the meter clicks (All Through The Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper) Humpin' on the parking meter, leanin' on the parking meter (Gloria; performing artist: Patti Smith) Down at the meter no more (Chuck E's in love; performing artist: Rickie Lee Jones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 4628 Meter hoch auf Skiern - Besteigung des Monte Rosa (1913) Hadisat an-nusf meter (1981) Meter Maids (1974) | |
Song Titles | Meter Maid (performing artist: Galactic) | |
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 | Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft. The Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft were launched on 8 and 14 June 1975, respectively,to do the unprecedented: place a lander on the surface of Venus and return images.The two spacecraft successfully landed a descent craft on 16 and 23 October 1975.These images were obtained on 22 and 25 October 1975. Venera 9 landed on a slopeinclined by about 30 degrees to the horizontal whereas Venera 10 was only inclinedabout 8 degrees. The two spacecraft were separated by about 2100 km. Most of the rocks in the images are between about 0.3 and 1 meter. Credit: NASA. |  | Brown Gravity Meter - a pendulum apparatus. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Brown pendulum apparatus gravity meter Named for its inventor, Lt. E. J. Brown, C&GS Lt. Brown died in an automobile accident in 1935. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Icy Bay, Yahtse Glacier - current meter by helicopter. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Retrieving a current meter buoy on the ALBATROSS IV Buoy used for warm core ring study. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Deploying a current meter from the stern of the ALBATROSS IV for warm core study. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Buoy with tethered current meter being launched during Gulf Stream eddy studies from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Yeah, the buoy made it over the side. Now let's see if we can get this current meter in the water. Gulf Stream eddy studies from the NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Liquid water content meter and other probes. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Divers guide the 15 meter long AQUARIUS onto the baseplate. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Electric meter" by Pedro Sostre Commentary: "Electricity meter closeup." | "Parking meter" by Val Head Commentary: "Parking meter on a street in amherst mass." |
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Lewis L. Strauss | Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Your peak flow meter. (references) | |
If you use a peak flow meter, bring it to each visit. (references) | ||
Mark the zones on your peak flow meter with colored tape or a marker. (references) | ||
Business | The least cost steel-framed house is $400 per square meter. (references) | |
Average cost to the company is approximately $30 per meter. (references) | ||
Shipping charges from the U.S. are approximately US$80 per cubic meter. (references) | ||
Economic History | Tanzania | The TRC network is approximately 2,600 km of single-track meter gauge. (references) |
Czech Rep | Office space in the Prague 1 center, is pricey, with offices renting for $17 to $20 per square meter per year. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Real estate prices have remained stable, in the $20,000-30,000 range for a 100 square meter two-bedroom apartment. (references) | |
Minorities | Georgia | In December 2000, Basilists encircled a 5,000 square meter plot of land where a local Pentecostal congregation planned to build a multi-purpose building. (references) |
Trade | Argentina | Storage of merchandise in the Tucuman Free Zone's general depots costs $6.00 per cubic meter, per month. (references) |
Lebanon | The reconstruction of a 120,000 square meter free zone at the port of Beirut is complete and a 6,000-square meter bonded warehouse facilities is now available. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | A 50 percent surcharge is added to the meter fare. (references) |
Taiwan | For most cities, the meter is used to calculate the fare. (references) | |
Taiwan | There is an additional charge of NT$20 added to the fare shown on the meter. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Meter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.38% of the time. "Meter" is used about 484 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.38% | 481 | 12,374 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 484 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "meter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Meter | Last name | 170 | 50,420 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Badger Meter, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "meter": absorption wave meter ♦ air flow meter ♦ air meter ♦ alcohol meter ♦ ampere demant meter ♦ ampere hour meter ♦ Angle meter ♦ apparent energy meter ♦ apparent power meter ♦ billiards meter ♦ candela per square meter ♦ Candle meter ♦ colour temperature meter ♦ Common meter ♦ contamination meter ♦ Coulomb meter ♦ cubic meter ♦ current meter ♦ dose meter ♦ Dry meter ♦ elapsed time meter ♦ electric meter ♦ electricity meter ♦ elegaic meter ♦ exposure meter ♦ fare meter ♦ frequency meter ♦ Friction meter ♦ fuel consumption meter ♦ gas meter ♦ gravity meter ♦ heterodyne frequency meter ♦ hygrometric moisture meter ♦ hygroscopic moisture meter ♦ integrating meter ♦ light meter ♦ load meter ♦ Long meter ♦ lumen per square meter ♦ megohm meter ♦ meter flume ♦ meter indication ♦ meter inspector ♦ meter maid ♦ meter prover ♦ meter reader ♦ meter reading ♦ mileage meter ♦ park meter ♦ parking meter ♦ phase meter ♦ photoluminescent personal exposure meter ♦ postage meter ♦ private meter ♦ proportional meter ♦ read the electric meter ♦ reader for photoluminescent exposure meter ♦ resistance meter ♦ rH meter ♦ short meter ♦ slot meter ♦ sound level meter ♦ square meter ♦ subscriber's check meter ♦ summation meter ♦ tax meter ♦ tilt meter ♦ Torsion meter ♦ totalising meter ♦ totalizing meter ♦ Van Meter ♦ water meter ♦ weight per meter run over buffers ♦ wet meter ♦ wind speed meter ♦ Wt meter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "meter": meter-feeding, meter-reading, meter-setting. | |
Ending with "meter": g-meter. | |
Containing "meter": gas-meter disc. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wind meter | 2,528 | fluke meter | 145 |
love o meter | 1,056 | glucose meter | 141 |
light meter | 992 | auto meter | 124 |
bandwidth meter | 930 | memory meter | 114 |
meter | 604 | sound level meter | 101 |
flow meter | 590 | foot to meter | 100 |
du meter | 347 | convert meter to foot | 93 |
postage meter | 334 | power meter | 93 |
310 airsense co2 co2 meter model monitor | 292 | meter conversion | 90 |
love meter | 265 | blood glucose meter | 89 |
sound meter | 256 | electric meter | 87 |
ph meter | 253 | parking meter | 85 |
water meter | 226 | dissolved oxygen meter | 85 |
meter to foot conversion | 211 | health o meter | 82 |
conductivity meter | 185 | carbon dioxide meter | 80 |
volt meter | 178 | vu meter | 76 |
carbon co2 dioxide green hand held house meter meter | 166 | peak flow meter | 76 |
moisture meter | 163 | excite love o meter | 75 |
meter to foot | 163 | flow meter water | 73 |
postal meter | 149 | gauss meter | 73 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "meter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | meter (metre). (various references) | |
Albanian | metër (metre), sahat (clock, counter, horologe, ticker, watch), njehsor (counter, register), kontator (register). (various references) | |
Arabic | ميتر, وزن الألحان, وزن الشعر, عداد (counter, gage, numerator, register, timer), الة قياس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стихотворна стъпка (metre), стихотворен размер (metre), метър (entry, metre, yardstick), брояч (counter, indicator, register), измервач (measurer), измервателен уред. (various references) | |
Chinese | 米 (rice). (various references) | |
Czech | metrum (metre), metr (metre, yardstick), mìřit (Gage, gauge, mete), mìřiè, hodiny (clock). (various references) | |
Danish | måleudstyr (measuring apparatus, measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring means, measuring tool), måleinstrument (measuring apparatus, measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring means, measuring tool). (various references) | |
Dutch | metrum (metre), meter (metre), versmaat (metre), teller (teller), comptabele meter (integrating meter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | metro (metre). (various references) | |
Farsi | میزان (Adjustment, Balance, Criterion, Measure, Remedy, Rhythm, Scale, Unit, Yardstick), مقیاس (Criterion, Gauge, Indicator, Measure, Scale, Yardstick), متر, مسجع ومقفی دراوردن , مصرف سنج , نظم (Array, Collocation, Discipline, Order, Poem, Poetry, Rank, Rhyme, System, Train, Verse), کنتور, وسیله اندازه گیری , وزن شعر, سنجیدن (Assay, Counterweight, Deliberate, Essay, Evaluate, Measure, Ponder, Try, Weigh), سجع وقافیه , اندازه گیری کردن , بامتراندازه گیری کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | metri (metre), kertymämittari (integrating meter), integroiva mittari (integrating meter). (various references) | |
French | compteur (integrating meter). (various references) | |
German | Meter (m., meters, meterUS, metre, metric measure), zähler (counter, counters, enumerator, numeraire, numerator, tally), Takt (bar, beat, clock, clock pulse, foot, gating, grace, measure, musical time, phase, savoir faire, stroke, tact, tactfulness, time), Messgerät (Gage, gauge, scale). (various references) | |
Greek | μέτρο (gauge, measure, measurement, metre, standard), μετρητής (gauge, metronome). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מודד (index, surveyor), מונה (counter, gauge, register), משקל השיר (rhyme, time), מקצב (allocation, beat, rhythm), מדיד (calibre, gauge, measurable, metre). (various references) | |
Hungarian | méter (metre). (various references) | |
Indonesian | meter. (various references) | |
Irish | méadar (metre). (various references) | |
Italian | metro (metre, rule, yardstick), contatore (counter, metre). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 計量器 (gauge, scale), 計器 (gauge), メーカー物 (gauge, Major, Major League, make, make love, make over, make up, makeup, make-up, mate, May Day, Mayday, meter stamp, metre, name-brand item), 平仄 (consistency). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | メートル (gauge, metre), メーター , メータ , ひょうそく (consistency), けいりょうき (gauge, scale), けいき (business, chance, condition, gauge, light machine gun, occurring in succession, opportunity, prison term, state). (various references) | |
Korean | 미터 (metre, metric, metrical). (various references) | |
Manx | meedyr scoltan (slot meter), gas-veih (gas meter). (various references) | |
Norwegian | meter (metre). (various references) | |
Papago | kuintakud (measuring tape, ruler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | medidor (measurer, metre), contador (accountant, counter). (various references) | |
Romanian | contor (counter), aparat de mãsurã. (various references) | |
Russian | счетчик (checker, computer, counter, register, scaler, scorer, taximeter), метр;измеритель, метр (metre), измерительный прибор (gauge, measurer), измеритель (gage, measurer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | metar (metre). (various references) | |
Spanish | metro (metre, metro, rule, subway, tube, underground), contador (accountant, counter, metre, purser, recorder). (various references) | |
Swedish | mätare (gauge, gauges). (various references) | |
Turkish | metre (folding rule, metre, rule), vezin (measure, metre, prosody, rhythm), sayaç (counter, current meter, recorder, register, telltale), saat (clock, horologe, hour, o'clock, ticker, time, timer, watch), ölçmek (clock, evaluate, gauge, measure, mete, perambulate, survey, take, take the range), ölçü (dimension, dimensions, extent, foot rule, gauge, measure, measurement, metre, prosody, scale, size, standard, stint, test). (various references) | |
Turkmen | metr (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вимірювати (determine, gauge, size), метр (cadence, metre), землемір (surveyor), лічильник (calculator, computer, indicator, numerator), дозувати (batch, dose, proportion). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái đo, cái đòng hồ đo. (various references) | |
Welsh | mydr (verse), metr, mesurydd (measurer), mesur (bill, measure, mete, tune). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | metron. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | metri. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | ryme. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meter": meterage, meterages, metered, metering, meters, meterstick, metersticks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "meter": accelerometer, acidimeter, actinometer, aerometer, alkalimeter, altimeter, ammeter, anemometer, atmometer, audiometer, barometer, bolometer, calorimeter, ceilometer, centimeter, chronometer, clinometer, colorimeter, coulometer, cyclometer, decameter, decimeter, dekameter, densitometer, diameter, diffractometer, dilatometer, dimeter, dosimeter, durometer, dynamometer, electrodynamometer, electrometer, ergometer, eudiometer, extensometer, flowmeter, fluorimeter, fluorometer, galvanometer, gasometer, geometer, goniometer, gradiometer, gravimeter, hectometer, heliometer, hemacytometer, hemocytometer, heptameter, hexameter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "meter": accelerometers, acidimeters, actinometers, aerometers, alkalimeters, altimeters, ammeters, anemometers, atmometers, audiometers, barometers, bolometers, calorimeters, ceilometers, cemeteries, cemetery, centimeters, chronometers, clinometers, colorimeters, coulometers, cyclometers, decameters, decimeters, dekameters, densitometers, diameters, diffractometers, dilatometers, dimeters, dosimeters, durometers, dynamometers, electrodynamometers, electrometers, ergometers, eudiometers, extensometers, flowmeters, fluorimeters, fluorometers, galvanometers, gasometers, geometers, goniometers, gradiometers, gravimeters, hectometers, heliometers, hemacytometers, hemocytometers. (additional references) | |
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"Meter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emder, emter, eter, jeter, mafer, matar, mateir, Matera, matre, mayero, Mcteer, Mcturk, meater, meator, meatr, medar, Meder, Medtner, meeret, meerk, Meert, meezer, mefem, meger, megera, Megert, mehter, meier, mekerr, melter, Meltern, Memtek, memtor, Menerbi, Menteri, Mentre, Merer, meret, merter, mesher, Mester, mestre, mestret, metae, Metair, metam, metar, metax, metce, meteir, Metel, metem, meten, meteo, metey, mether, meti, metour, metr, metrd, Mette, metteur, metu, meuter, mewer, meyer, Mezera, Mitar, mitor, mitrer, mitret, mitter, moeder, motar, moter, motter, mtr, myter, netir, Netzer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "meter" (pronounced mē"ter) |
| 3 | -ē" t er | eater, beater, cheater, Dieter, heater, liter, neater, Peter, praetor, repeater, seater, Skeeter, sweeter, teeter, treater. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: metre, remet, retem. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: meet, mere, mete, rete, teem, term, tree. | |
-2 letters: eme, ere, met, ree, rem, ret, tee. | |
-3 letters: em, er, et, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cermet, emoter, meeter, melter, merest, meteor, meters, metier, metred, metres, reemit, remate, remeet, remelt, remote, reteam, retems, retime, teemer, temper, termed, termer, therme. | |
+2 letters: ammeter, amreeta, cermets, cremate, demerit, dimeter, embrute, emerita, emeriti, emirate, emitter, emoters, emptier, eremite, extrema, extreme, fermate, ferment, gumtree, meatier, meerkat, meeters, melters, merited, metamer, meteors, metered, metiers, mitered, miterer, permute, preempt, premeet, preterm, reemits, remated, remates, remeets, remelts, remoter, remotes, resmelt, reteams, retimed, retimes, smelter, steamer, stemmer, teemers, tempera, tempers, tempter, termers, termite, theorem, thermae, thermel, thermes, tremble, trireme, triseme. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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