megameter

See also: mega-meter

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ -meter

Noun

megameter (plural megameters)

1. US spelling of megametre
2. An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
3. A micrometer.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “megameter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

megametre — see megametre

Anagrams

• megametre