Alternativa stavningar
- (brittisk engelska) metre
Synonymer
| Översättning | Kontext | Uttal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Substantiv | |||
| 1. | mätare {en} | ||
| 2. | -meter {en} | ||
| 3. | takt {en} | amerikansk engelska | |
| 4. | taktart {en} | amerikansk engelska | |
| 5. | meter {en} | ||
Definitioner
Substantiv
- (always meter) A device that measures things.
- (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
- (chiefly US, 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.
- (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
- (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
- (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
- (obsolete) A poem.
Verb
- to measure with a metering device.
- to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter
Exempel
- gas meter
- a labouring coal-meter
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | metered |
| Imperfekt | metered |
| Presensparticip | metering |
| Plural | meters |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | meters |