meter

See also Meter, and -meter

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• metre (for noun senses 3 through 5)

Etymology

From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (metron, “measure”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmiːtə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmitəɹ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːtə(r)

Noun

meter (plural meters)

1. (always meter) A device that measures things.
2. A parking meter.
3. (dated) One who metes or measures.

   a labouring coal-meter

4. (chiefly US, 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.
5. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
6. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

Derived terms

Terms derived from meter

altimeter centimeter feed the meter kilometer metric

metrical millimeter odometer pedometer pentameter

spectropolarimeter tachymeter tetrameter

Translations

measuring instrument

• Arabic: عداد (ʕaddād) m
• Armenian: հաշվիչ (hy) (hašvič), չափիչ (hy) (čap'ič)
• Chinese: 計量表 (jì liáng biǎo)
• Czech: metr (cs) m
• Dutch: meter (nl) m, teller (nl) m
• Finnish: mittari (fi), mitta (fi), mittatikku (fi)
• French: mètre (fr) m, compteur (fr) m
• German: Messgerät (de) n
• Greek: μέτρο (el) (métro) n
• Hungarian: mérőóra (hu)
• Irish: méadar (ga) m
• Italian: metro (it) m, contatore (it) m
• Japanese: メーター (mētā), 計量器 (けいりょうき, keiryōki)
• Korean: 계량기 (ko) (gyeryanggi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: مه‌تر

• Lithuanian: metras (lt) m
• Macedonian: мерач (mk) (mérač) m
• Malay: meter (ms)
• Norwegian: måler (no) m
• Persian: اندازه‌گیر (fa) (andâzegir), سنجه (fa) (sanje)
• Polish: miernik (pl) m
• Portuguese: contador (pt) m
• Romanian: metru (ro) m (instrument), contor (ro) n
• Russian: счётчик (ru) (sčótčik) m, измеритель (ru) (izmerítel’) m
• Scottish Gaelic: inneal-tomhais (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ме̏тар (sh)

  Roman: mȅtar (sh)

• Spanish: medidor (es) m, contador (es) m, metro (es) m
• Swedish: mätare (sv) c, -meter (sv) c
• Turkish: metre (tr)

short form of parking meter

• Finnish: mittari (fi)

unit of length

• Arabic: متر (mitr) m
• Armenian: մետր (hy) (metr)
• Chinese: 米 (mǐ)
• Czech: metr (cs) m
• Dutch: meter (nl) m
• Estonian: meeter (et)
• Finnish: metri (fi)
• French: mètre (fr) m
• German: Meter (de) m
• Greek: μέτρο (el) (métro) n
• Haitian Creole: mèt
• Hebrew: מטר (meter) m
• Hindi: मीटर (hi) (mītər)
• Hungarian: méter (hu)
• Icelandic: metri (is)
• Interlingua: metro
• Irish: méadar (ga) m
• Italian: metro (it) m
• Japanese: メートル, ㍍ (mētoru)

• Korean: 미터 (miteo)
• Lojban: selmitre (jbo)
• Macedonian: метар (mk) (métar) m
• Malay: meter (ms)
• Norwegian: meter (no) m
• Persian: متر (fa) (metr)
• Polish: metr (pl) m
• Portuguese: metro (pt) m
• Romanian: metru (ro) m, metri (ro) m pl
• Russian: метр (ru) (metr) m
• Slovak: meter (sk) m
• Spanish: metro (es) m
• Swedish: meter (sv)
• Tatar: meter
• Telugu: మీటరు (te)
• Turkish: metre (tr)
• Vietnamese: mét (vi)
• Yiddish: מעטער (meter) m

increment of music

• Finnish: tahtilaji (fi)
• Greek: μέτρο (el) (métro) n
• Irish: méadar (ga) m

• Japanese: 拍子 (ja) (ひょうし, hyōshi)
• Polish: metrum (pl) n
• Romanian: metru (ro) m, ritm (ro) n

rhythym of poetry

• Finnish: runomitta (fi)
• Greek: μέτρο (el) (métro) n
• Irish: aiste (ga) f, meadaracht (ga) f

• Japanese: 韻律 (ja) (いんりつ, inritsu)
• Macedonian: метар (mk) (métar) m

Verb

meter (third-person singular simple present meters, present participle metering, simple past and past participle metered)

1. To measure with a metering device.
2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

Translations

to measure — see measure

Anagrams

• metre
• remet
• retem

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Aragonese

Verb

meter

1. to put

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmetər/

Etymology 1

Noun

meter m (plural meters, diminutive metertje)

1. meter, metre (a distance of 100 centimeters. The base unit of the metric system).
2. meter (a device that measures things).

Etymology 2

Noun

meter f (plural meters, diminutive metertje)

1. godmother

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Latin

Verb

mēter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of mētor

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Norwegian

Noun

meter m

1. metre (unit of length)

This Norwegian entry was created from the translations listed at metre. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see meter in the Norwegian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2009

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Portuguese

Etymology

Latin mittere

Verb

meter (first-person singular present indicative meto, past participle metido)

1. to put
2. to insert
3. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere

Conjugation

  Conjugation of the Portuguese -er verb meter

Notes:

• This is a regular verb of the -er group.
• Verbs with this conjugation include: comer, mexer, temer, varrer, vender.

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	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele/ela/você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles/elas/vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	meter
Personal	meter	meteres	meter	metermos	meterdes	meterem
Gerund
	metendo
Past participle
Masculine	metido			metidos
Feminine	metida			metidas
Indicative
Present	meto	metes	mete	metemos	meteis	metem
Imperfect	metia	metias	metia	metíamos	metíeis	metiam
Preterite	meti	meteste	meteu	metemos	metestes	meteram
Pluperfect	metera	meteras	metera	metêramos	metêreis	meteram
Future	meterei	meterás	meterá	meteremos	metereis	meterão
Conditional	meteria	meterias	meteria	meteríamos	meteríeis	meteriam
Subjunctive
Present	meta	metas	meta	metamos	metais	metam
Imperfect	metesse	metesses	metesse	metêssemos	metêsseis	metessem
Future	meter	meteres	meter	metermos	meterdes	meterem
Imperative
Affirmative	meta	mete	meta	metamos	metei	metam
Negative (não)	meta	metas	meta	metamos	metais	metam

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mittō (“I send, I put”).

Verb

meter (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metí, past participle metido)

1. to put, to insert
2. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere

Conjugation

    Conjugation of meter (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			meter
gerund			metiendo
past participle			metido
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	meto	metes	mete	metemos	metéis	meten
	imperfect	metía	metías	metía	metíamos	metíais	metían
	preterite	metí	metiste	metió	metimos	metisteis	metieron
	future	meteré	meterás	meterá	meteremos	meteréis	meterán
	conditional	metería	meterías	metería	meteríamos	meteríais	meterían
subjunctive		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	meta	metas	meta	metamos	metáis	metan
	imperfect (ra)	metiera	metieras	metiera	metiéramos	metierais	metieran
	imperfect (se)	metiese	metieses	metiese	metiésemos	metieseis	metiesen
	future	metiere	metieres	metiere	metiéremos	metiereis	metieren
imperative		—	tú	usted	nosotros	vosotros	ustedes
	affirmative		mete	meta	metamos	meted	metan
	negative		no metas	no meta	no metamos	no metáis	no metan

Related terms

• metete
• metiche
• metido
• misión
• admitir
• cometer
• emitir
• omitir
• permitir
• prometer

Derived terms

• meter la cuchara
• meter la nariz

Synonyms

• (to meddle, interfere) inmiscuirse
• (to meddle, interfere) meter la nariz

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmeːtɛr/

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Noun

meter c

1. a metre; the SI-unit
2. (music) Rhythm or measure in verse
3. a meter; a device that measures things.

Declension

Declension of meter

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	meter	metern	meter	meterna
genitive	meters	meterns	meters	meternas

Usage notes

Indefinite form plural could also be metrar/metrars

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Tatar

Noun

meter

1. meter

Declension

    declension of meter

Nominative	meter
Genitive	meternıñ
Dative	meterga
Accusative	meternı
Locative	meterda
Ablative	meterdan