Metre
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Alternative Spellings
- meter (chiefly U.S.)
Etymology
From ancient Greek: μετρον (metron), "measure", "rule", "length", "size", "poetic metre"; via Latin metrum (sense 1) and French mètre (sense 2).
Pronunciation
Noun
- The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
- Derived terms
- Metronome
- External links
- Wikipedia article: meter (poetry)
- Derived terms
- The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. It is equal to 39.37 Imperial inches.
- Spelling: This, rather than meter, is the spelling adopted by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
- Symbol: m
- Quotations
- 1797 - The Monthly magazine and British register, No. 3
- The measures of length above the metre are ten times [etc.]...greater than the metre.
- 1873 - The Young Englishwoman, April
- A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.
- 1928 - The Observer, April 15
- The 12-metre yachts...can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.
- 1797 - The Monthly magazine and British register, No. 3
- Derived terms
- metrology
- See SI prefixes
- External links
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures
- Wikipedia article: metre
Translations
- Chinese: 米
- Czech: metr m
- Dutch: meter m
- Estonian: meetrum (verse and music); värsimõõt (verse); meeter (unit)
- Finnish: runomitta (1), metri (2)
- French: mètre m
- German: Meter m (2), Metrum n (1)
- Greek: μέτρο (metro) n
- Interlingua: metro
- Italian: metro m (1)
- Japanese: メートル ㍍ (mētoru)
- Polish: metr m
- Portuguese: metro m
- Romanian: metru m
- Romanica: metro m
- Russian: метр m [metr]
- Slovak: meter m
- Spanish: metro m (2), medidor m (1), contador m (1)
- Swedish: meter
- Turkish: metre
- Vietnamese: mét (2), nhịp phách (1)
