METER
What does "METER" mean?
The base unit of length in the metric system, equal to about 39.37 inches.
Meanings
- The SI base unit of length, equal to 100 centimeters. The pool is fifty meters long.
- A device that measures and records the quantity of something used or supplied. The technician read the gas meter.
- The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse, or of beats in music. The poem is written in iambic meter. technical
Did you know?
- Since 1983 the meter has not been a physical bar but a unit defined by time: it is exactly the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- The original meter was meant to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator - a way to root the unit in the size of the Earth itself.
Word origin
From Greek 'metron' (a measure), via Latin 'metrum' and French 'metre'; the unit of length was named in revolutionary France in the 1790s.
Remember it
METER means 'measure' in Greek - both the metric length and the beat of a poem keep things in even measure.
A little poem
A stick once cut to match the leaning world,
now light itself is measured, sliced, and curled.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the poet argue with the parking attendant? Both insisted they understood meter better.
What it teaches
To measure a thing well, first agree on what the measure itself is made of.
Quick facts
What does METER mean?
The base unit of length in the metric system, equal to about 39.37 inches.
Is METER a valid word?
Yes — METER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is METER?
METER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does METER come from?
From Greek 'metron' (a measure), via Latin 'metrum' and French 'metre'; the unit of length was named in revolutionary France in the 1790s.
What can METER teach us?
To measure a thing well, first agree on what the measure itself is made of.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.