meter

/หˆmitษ™ษน/

IPA: /M IY1 T ER0/

noun
  1. 1

    (always meter) A device that measures things.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    (always meter) One who metes or measures.

    โ€œa labouring coal-meterโ€

  4. 4

    (elsewhere metre) 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.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    (elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    A poem.

verb
  1. 1

    To measure with a metering device.

  2. 2

    To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.

  3. 3

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

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meter