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metre


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meter  \Me"ter\,  Metre  \Me"tre\,  n.  [OE.  metre,  F.  m[`e]tre,  L. 
  metrum  fr  Gr  ?;  akin  to  Skr.  m[=a]  to  measure.  See  {Mete} 
  to  measure.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  The  only  strict  antithesis  to  prose  is  meter. 
  --Wordsworth. 
 
  2.  A  poem.  [Obs.]  --Robynson  (More's  Utopia). 
 
  3.  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}. 
 
  {Common  meter}  (Hymnol.),  four  iambic  verses,  or  lines, 
  making  a  stanza,  the  first  and  third  having  each  four 
  feet,  and  the  second  and  fourth  each  three  feet;  -- 
  usually  indicated  by  the  initials  C.M. 
 
  {Long  meter}  (Hymnol.),  iambic  verses  or  lines  of  four  feet 
  each  four  verses  usually  making  a  stanza;  --  commonly 
  indicated  by  the  initials  L.  M. 
 
  {Short  meter}  (Hymnol.),  iambic  verses  or  lines,  the  first 
  second  and  fourth  having  each  three  feet,  and  the  third 
  four  feet.  The  stanza  usually  consists  of  four  lines,  but 
  is  sometimes  doubled.  Short  meter  is  indicated  by  the 
  initials  S.  M. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Metre  \Me"tre\,  n. 
  See  {Meter}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  metre 
  n  :  the  basic  unit  of  length  adopted  under  the  System 
  International  d'Unites  (approximately  1.094  yards)  [syn: 
  {meter},  {m}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  metre 
 
    (US  "meter")  The  fundamental  {SI}  unit  of  length. 
 
  From  1889  to  1960,  the  metre  was  defined  to  be  the  distance 
  between  two  scratches  in  a  platinum-iridium  bar  kept  in  the 
  vault  beside  the  Standard  Kilogram  at  the  International  Bureau 
  of  Weights  and  Measures  near  Paris. 
 
  This  replaced  an  earlier  definition  as  10^-7  times  the 
  distance  between  the  North  Pole  and  the  Equator  along  a 
  meridian  through  Paris;  unfortunately,  this  had  been  based  on 
  an  inexact  value  of  the  circumference  of  the  Earth. 
 
  From  1960  to  1984  it  was  defined  to  be  1650763.73  wavelengths 
  of  the  orange-red  line  of  krypton-86  propagating  in  a  vacuum. 
 
  It  is  now  defined  as  the  length  of  the  path  traveled  by  light 
  in  a  vacuum  in  the  time  interval  of  1/299,792,458  of  a  second 
 
  (1998-02-07) 
 
 




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