meter

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   measure with a meter

   meter the flow of water

2. 2
   verb

   stamp with a meter indicating the postage

   meter the mail

3. 3
   noun

   One who metes or measures.

   a labouring coal-meter

4. 4
   noun

   US standard spelling of metre (“unit of measure”).

   No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.

5. 5
   noun

   A poem.

   A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue

6. 6
   noun

   any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity

7. 7
   noun

   rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

8. 8
   noun

   (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Etymology

From Middle English meter, metre, from Old English meter and Old French metre; both from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).