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  1. noun The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.
  2. noun A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter, determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line.
  3. noun The rhythmic pattern of a stanza, determined by the kind and number of lines.
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  • After a week of limited wireless, my meter is around 50 percent.
  • The most important for you is the new energy meter, which is the resource that is used by your fancy new gadgets. —  UGO.com - UnderGroundOnline
  • The length of the approved BOT iron ore berth would be 370 meter, alongside depth of (-) 17.1 meter which will be capable of handling vessels of 1,25,000 Dead Weight Tonnage (DWT) and will have developed stacking area of about 82,125 sqm. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Setting two PR's was senior hurdler Decontee Kaye with a time of 25: 28 in the 200-meter, and a long jump of —  The Daily Aztec RSS
  • Finally, scoring a whopping '' 10 '' on our meter is a loosely —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Middle English, from Old English meter and from Old French metre, both from Latin metrum, from Greek metron, measure, poetic meter; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. French mètre, from Greek metron, measure; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.
  3. From -meter.

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  1. Formerly also meeter; from Middle English meter, from Anglo-Saxon *metere (cf. metend, a measurer) (= Dutch meter = Middle Low German meter = Old High German mezāri, mezzāri, Middle High German mezzer, German messer = Swedish mätare, a measurer), from metan, measure: see mete. In the second sense, 'that which measures, an instrument for measuring, as in gas-meter, water-meter, etc., the word is partly confused in composition with the L. metrum, from Greek μέτρον, a measure, which is the word involved in the unitary compounds gasometer, electrometer, geometer, diameter, perimeter, etc.: see meter, meter.
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