Meter
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[1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] -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. [1913 Webster] Meter \Me"ter\, n. [From Mete to measure.] 1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. [1913 Webster] 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Meter \Me"ter\, n. A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. [1913 Webster] Meter  meter n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m] 2: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity 3: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence] 4: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [syn: meter, metre, time] v 1: measure with a meter; "meter the flow of water" 2: stamp with a meter indicating the postage; "meter the mail"  meter (1998-02-07)  meter Meter  meter metre  Meter [meːtr] (n) , pl. meter; meters  Meter mètre  Meter meter; metrum; versmaat  Meter metro  meter [miːtər] Messgerät; Meter; Takt meterUS [miːtərəm] Meter; Metrik  meter adagolóberendezés adagolókészülék felmérômunkás fogyasztásmérô földmérômunkás mázsálómunkás mérlegelômunkás mérômunkás mérôeszköz mérôkészülék mérômûszer mérôóra méter számlálókészülék versmérték vízóra ütem  meter [metər] Meter  meter [metər] metre  meter [metər] marraine compteur mètre  meter legen; setzen; stecken; stellen  meter lay down; place; put; put down  meter metre  meter lay down; place; put; putdown(meti)  meter metre  meter Messgerät n; Meter m; Takt m meter [Am.] Meter m,n; Metrik f meter dosieren meter messen meter Messgerät n meter Messinstrument n  Meter m meter Meter m,n meter [Am.]; metre [Br.] Meter pl meters  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 Meter related |
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