[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

meter \me"ter\, metre \me"tre\, n. oe. metre, f. m`etre, 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.
      1913 webster

            the only strict antithesis to prose is meter.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   2. a poem. obs. --robynson more's utopia.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
mete metric system metric common meter long meter short meter 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

-meter \-me"ter\ l. metrum measure, or the allied gr. ?. see
   meter rhythm.
   a suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as,
   barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
   1913 webster
see also:
meter 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

meter \me"ter\, n. from mete to measure.
   1. one who, or that which, metes or measures. see
      coal-meter.
      1913 webster

   2. an instrument for measuring, and usually for recording
      automatically, the quantity measured.
      1913 webster

   dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with
      flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and
      measure the gas by filling and emptying.

   wet meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a
      chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through
      it.
      1913 webster
see also:
mete coal-meter dry meter wet meter 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

meter \me"ter\, n.
   a line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is
   attached in order to strengthen it.
   1913 webster meter

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

meter
     n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the systeme
          international d'unites approximately 1.094 yards syn:
           metre, m
     2: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a
        quantity
     3: prosody the accent in a metrical foot of verse syn: metre,
         measure, beat, cadence
     4: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time syn: metre,
         time
     v 1: measure with a meter; "meter the flow of water"
     2: stamp with a meter indicating the postage; "meter the mail"
see also:
metre m measure beat cadence time 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

194 moby thesaurus words for "meter":
   alexandrine, stabreim, vom, vtvm, accent, accentuation,
   alliterative meter, alternation, ammeter, ampere-hour meter,
   amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, appraise,
   appraiser, appreciate, arsis, assay, assayer, assess, assessor,
   bacchius, beat, cadence, cadency, caesura, calculate, calibrate,
   caliper, cartographer, catalexis, check a parameter, chloriamb,
   chloriambus, chorographer, colon, compute, coulometer,
   count-rate meter, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl,
   dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dial, dimeter, dipody, divide,
   dochmiac, duodial, dynamometer, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
   elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, estimate, estimator,
   evaluate, evaluator, expansion ammeter, faradmeter, fathom,
   feminine caesura, foot, galvanometer, gauge, gauger, geodesist,
   graduate, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter,
   hexapody, hysteresis meter, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus,
   illuminometer, instrument, interferometer, intermittence,
   intermittency, ionic, ionization gauge, jingle, land surveyor,
   lilt, magnetometer, masculine caesura, measure, measurer,
   megohmmeter, mensurate, mete, metrical accent, metrical foot,
   metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron,
   mhometer, milliammeter, molossus, mora, movement,
   moving-coil meter, number, numbers, oceanographer, ohmmeter,
   oscillation, ph meter, pace, paeon, pendulum motion, pentameter,
   pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion,
   plumb, potentiometer, prize, probe, proceleusmatic,
   prosodic pattern, prosody, pulsation, pyrrhic, quantify,
   quantitative meter, quantity, quantize, rate, reappearance,
   recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme,
   rhythm, rhythmic pattern, scanning, scansion, seasonality, size,
   size up, sound, span, spondee, sprung rhythm, step, stress, survey,
   surveyor, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, take a reading, telemeter,
   tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thermoammeter, thermocouple,
   thermoelectrometer, thesis, time-interval meter, topographer,
   triangulate, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
   undulation, valuate, valuator, value, valuer, variometer,
   vers libre, versification, voltameter, voltmeter, weigh

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

meter
     
         us spelling of "metre".
     
        1998-02-07
     
     
see also:
metre 

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Common Meter, definition of term: Common Meter
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