Meter vs. Metric

Meternoun

(always meter) A device that measures things.

Meternoun

(always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

Meternoun

(always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.

Meternoun

The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.

Meternoun

(music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.

Meternoun

The rhythm pattern in a poem.

Meternoun

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Meternoun

(obsolete) A poem.

Meterverb

to measure with a metering device.

Meterverb

to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

Meterverb

to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath)

Meternoun

One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

Meternoun

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

Meternoun

A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Meternoun

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

Meternoun

A poem.

Meternoun

A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.

Meternoun

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Meternoun

any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity

Meternoun

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Meternoun

rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

Meterverb

measure with a meter;

Meterverb

stamp with a meter indicating the postage;

Metricadjective

of or relating to the metric system of measurement

Metricadjective

(music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.

Metricadjective

of or relating to distance

Metricnoun

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering)

Metricnoun

(mathematics) A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y) \ge 0 , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) .

Metricnoun

(mathematics) a metric tensor

Metricnoun

abbreviation of metric system

Metricverb

To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

Metricadjective

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

Metricadjective

Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

Metricnoun

a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

Metricnoun

a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds);

Metricnoun

a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

Metricadjective

based on the meter as a standard of measurement;

Metricadjective

the rhythmic arrangement of syllables