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Meter

Meter [fr. mete, Sax.], an instrument of measurement, as a coal-meter,

A licensed or official coal measurer in London See Meter

One who or that which metes or measures See Coal meter

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Measurer, or Meter, an officer in the City of London who measured woollen

given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter used as a unit of illumination except in Great Britain

modern Olympic Games a composite contest consisting of a 100 meter run a broad jump putting the shot a running high

The hundredth part of a meter a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty

Of or pertaining to the meter arranged in meter consisting of verses as metrical compositions

Uniteacutes abbreviated SI The principal unit of length is the meter see Meter From this are formed the are the liter

in the metric system containing the thousandth part of a meter equal to 03937 of an inch See 3d Meter

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