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