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 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)

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)

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

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• mensaje
• misión
• admitir
• cometer
• emitir
• omitir
• permitir
• prometer

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Inflection for meter	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	meter	metern	meter	meterna
Genitive	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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Nominative meter

Genitive meternıñ

Dative meterga

Accusative meternı

Locative meterda

Ablative meterdan