meter

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 1 2.2.1 Noun 2.3 Etymology 2 2.3.1 Noun 3 Norwegian 3.1 Noun 4 Portuguese 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Verb 4.2.1 Conjugation 5 Spanish 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Verb 5.2.1 Conjugation 5.2.2 Related terms 6 Swedish 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun 6.2.1 Usage notes 7 Tatar 7.1 Noun 7.1.1 Declension

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Wikipedia

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• metre (for noun senses 3 to 5)

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

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• IPA: /ˈmiːtə(ɻ)/
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• Rhymes: -iːtə(r)

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meter (plural meters)

1. (always meter) A device that measures things.
2. A parking meter.
3. (chiefly US) (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
4. (music) an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
5. (prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

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altimeter centimeter feed the meter kilometer metric metrical

millimeter odometer pedometer pentameter spectropolarimeter tachymeter tetrameter

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

1. To measure with a metering device.

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• IPA: /ˈmetər/

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meter m. (plural meters, diminutive metertje, diminutive plural metertjes)

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

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meter f. (plural meters, diminutive metertje, diminutive plural metertjes)

1. godmother

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meter m.

1. metre (unit of length)

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Latin mittere

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meter

1. to put

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

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

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

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

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Inflection for meter	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	meter	metern	meter	meterna
Possessive form	meters	meterns	meters	meternas

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

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Indefinite form plural could also be metrar/metrars

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meter [1]

1. meter.

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