Meanings
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1
adj
Relating to birth certificates.
Metrical records / metrical books.
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2
adj
the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
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3
adj
based on the meter as a standard of measurement
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4
adj
Relating to poetic meter.
Thesaurus
Word family
Derived forms
allometricalchemometricalextrametricalextrametricalityhexametricalimmetricalmetricallymonometricalmultimetricalnanometricalnonmetricalosteometrical
Related forms
metric
Etymology
From New Latin metricus + -al. For sense 4: Compare Russian метри́ческий (metríčeskij).