Si unit (symbol m) of length, equivalent to 1.093 yards or 39.37 inches. It is defined by scientists as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
In poetry, the recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse. The unit of meter is a foot. Meter is classified by the number of feet to a line: a minimum of two and a maximum of eight. A line of two feet is a dimeter. They are then named, in order, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter.Any instrument used for measurement. The term is often compounded with a prefix to denote a specific type of meter: for example, ammeter, voltmeter, flowmeter, or pedometer.(Alternate spelling: metre).
1. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards); SYN. metre, m.
2. Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time; SYN. time.
3. (Prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse; SYN. measure, beat, cadence.
4. Any of various instruments for measuring a quantity.
(griech.-frz.) Internat. Längenmaß, Abk. m, seit 1983 als 299 792 458. Teil der Strecke definiert, die das Licht in einer Sekunde durchläuft.
(Musik) Die Lehre vom Takt u. von der jeweiligen Akzentuierung im Takt oder im Motiv.
(Literatur) Die Lehre vom Vers.
(Geometrie) Maßbestimmung; die M. legt die Längenmessung in einem Raum fest.
(griech.)Vers- und Taktlehre, in der Literatur das aus Versmaß (Metrum) und Rhythmik bestehende Bauschema gebundener Rede sowie seine wiss. Untersuchung.
In regelmäßigen Abständen wiederkehrender Impuls.
1. To measure with a meter
2. To stamp with a meter indicating the postage
In music, the timescale represented by the beat. Meter is regular, whereas rhythm is irregular.
Meter can be simple as in 2/4, 4/8, and so on, where each beat divides into two sub-beats; compound meter as in 6/8, 9/8, 12/16, and so on, consists of sub-beats of “compounded” or aggregated in units of three. The numerical sign for meter is a time signature, of which the upper number represents the number of beats in the bar, the lower number the type of beat, expressed as a fraction of a unit (semibreve). Hence 3/4 is three crotchet (quarter-note) beats to the bar and 6/8 is two beats each of three quavers (eighth notes).