meter

  1. Noun.  (''always'' '''meter''') A device that measures things.
  2. Noun.  A parking meter.
  3. Noun.  (chiefly, US) 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. Noun.  (music) an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
  5. Noun.  (prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
  6. Verb.  To measure with a metering device.
  7. Verb.  To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.

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