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;
Micrometernoun
An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of one millionth of a meter. Symbols: µm, um, rm.
Micrometernoun
A device used to measure distance very precisely but within a limited range, especially depth, thickness, and diameter.
Micrometernoun
An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.
Micrometernoun
caliper for measuring small distances
Micrometernoun
a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter
Micrometernoun
a gauge that measures small distances or thicknesses between its two faces, one of which can be moved away from or towards the other by turning a screw with a fine thread.
Micrometernoun
US spelling of micrometre
Micrometer
A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for accurate measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers. Micrometers are usually, but not always, in the form of calipers (opposing ends joined by a frame).