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-meter definition

-meter (mēt′ər, mi tər)

  1. a device for measuring (a specified thing) thermometer, barometer
  2. a line of verse having (a specified number of) metrical feet heptameter

Etymology: Fr -mètre or ModL -metrum, both < Gr metron, a measure: see meter

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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