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–noun, verb, -tred, -tring. British.

meter.

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n. Chiefly British
Variant of meter¹.

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n. Chiefly British
Variant of meter².

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metre
noun
1.	the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter]
2.	(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter]
3.	rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [syn: meter]

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metre [ˈmiːtə] noun

(often abbreviated m when written) the chief unit of length in the metric system, equal to 39.37 inches
Example: This table is one metre broad.

Arabic:	مِتْر
Chinese (Simplified):	（公制长度单位）米
Chinese (Traditional):	(公制長度單位)米
Czech:	metr
Danish:	meter
Dutch:	meter
Estonian:	meeter
Finnish:	metri
French:	mètre
German:	der Meter
Greek:	μέτρο
Icelandic:	metri
Indonesian:	meter
Japanese:	メートル

Latvian:	metrs
Lithuanian:	metras
Norwegian:	meter
Polish:	metr
Portuguese (Brazil):	metro
Portuguese (Portugal):	metro
Romanian:	metru
Russian:	метр
Slovak:	meter
Slovenian:	meter
Spanish:	metro
Swedish:	meter
Turkish:	metre

metre [ˈmiːtə] noun

(in poetry) the regular arrangement of syllables that are stressed or unstressed, long or short
Example: The metre of this passage is typical of Shakespeare.

Arabic:	وزن، بَحْر من بُحور الشِّعْر
Chinese (Simplified):	（诗的）韵律
Chinese (Traditional):	(詩的)韻律
Czech:	metrum
Danish:	versemål
Dutch:	versmaat
Estonian:	värsimõõt
Finnish:	runomitta
French:	mètre
German:	das Versmaß
Greek:	μέτρο (στην ποίηση)
Icelandic:	bragarháttur
Indonesian:	sanjak

Japanese:	韻律
Latvian:	pantmērs
Lithuanian:	metras
Norwegian:	versemål
Polish:	stopa (metryczna)
Portuguese (Brazil):	metro
Portuguese (Portugal):	metro
Romanian:	metrică
Russian:	размер, ритм
Slovak:	metrum
Slovenian:	metrum
Swedish:	versmått
Turkish:	vezin

See also: metric, the metric system, metrical

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metre unit
(US "meter") The fundamental SI unit of length.
From 1889 to 1960, the metre was defined to be the distance between two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar kept in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris.
This replaced an earlier definition as 10^-7 times the distance between the North Pole and the Equator along a meridian through Paris; unfortunately, this had been based on an inexact value of the circumference of the Earth.
From 1960 to 1984 it was defined to be 1650763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red line of krypton-86 propagating in a vacuum.
It is now defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in the time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
(1998-02-07)