meter

nounrhythm, beat

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noun rhythm, beat

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Word Origin & History

also metre, "poetic measure," Old English meter "meter, versification," from Latin metrum, from Greek metron "meter, a verse; that by which anything is measured; measure, length, size, limit, proportion," from PIE root *me- "measure" (see meter (n.2)). Possibly reborrowed early 14c. (after a 300-year gap in recorded use) from Old French metre, with specific sense of "metrical scheme in verse," from Latin metrum.

Example Sentences for meter

It even included a meter to determine the current actually consumed.

It was all a new experience to him, and his meter was registering the time.

Not more than half a meter from the pavement, it checked its fall and settled.

His greatest work, "Harmony and Meter," was published in 1853.

The meter only registered eightpence, but she gave me half-a-crown.

Benson, after turning on the gas at the meter, returned to find the room in darkness.

He turned off the gas at the meter underneath the stairs as Benson had requested.

Look at that meter—and I've had to throw in number ten shunt!

When he reduces this to a system he has established the meter of his production.

There is no ruggedness in the meter, no violence in the stream of images.

meter

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accent

beat

cadence

cadences

cadency

gauge

meter

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beat

cadence

cadences

cadency

gauge

Synonyms for meter

accent