Meter Meaning

/ˈmitəɹ/
B1

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nounA device that measures things.

nounA device that measures things., A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

A cubic meter corresponds to 1000 liters.
I need it for the parking meter.
We read the meter once every two months.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The Olympic swimming pool is exactly 50 ____ long.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The utility worker came by early in the morning to read the electric ____ and record the monthly energy consumption.

From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) + -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc. Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).

"No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention." — 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
"A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue" — 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The Olympic swimming pool is exactly 50 ____ long.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The utility worker came by early in the morning to read the electric ____ and record the monthly energy consumption.

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