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-mer

1
Chemistry.
  1. a combining form meaning “member of a particular group”:

    isomer.



mer.

2

abbreviation for

  1. meridian.
  2. meridional.

mer.

1

abbreviation for

  1. meridian


-mer

2

suffix forming nouns

  1. chem denoting a substance of a particular class

    polymer

    monomer

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -mer1

From the Greek word méros part, portion

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -mer1

from Greek meros part

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Example Sentences

Schulze started recording after she and her husband noticed the stalled vehicle on the tracks in Mer Rouge, Louisiana.

That trial unveiled financing links between the Cercle Wagram and the Brise de Mer, a Corsican organized crime group.

Ferracci is also a television actor who appears in “Mafiosa,” a series said to be inspired by the Brise de Mer gang.

La Mer . . . Crosby, Stills and Nash, Fritz Reiner, Adam Guettel.

I mean, vai-is-mer, if you take the liberals out of the Jews, what do you have left?

En fin il parvint Dieppe, & apres quelque sejour il se mit en mer le 26.

An empty stone hut beyond the mer de glace gave them shelter for the night.

Before they left, they presented me with a quantity of bêche-de-mer, or sea-slugs, which make most excellent soup.

A-my thought there was no place like Grand-ma's for her sum-mer va-ca-tion.

We walked quickly over the Mer de Glace, and in about three hours came to the difficult part.

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