Definition of "meter"
- noun
A device that measures things.
A parking meter.
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.
(music) an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
The rhythm pattern in a poem.
- verb
To measure with a metering device.
To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
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