Submeter vs. Meter

Submeternoun

A utility meter, especially for electricity, that allows for the monitoring of usage on a portion of a distribution network, especially not owned by a utility, past a main meter.

Submeterverb

(transitive) To install a submeter for.

Submeterverb

To charge for electricity usage measured by a submeter.

Submeteradjective

On a scale based on units smaller than meters.

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;