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antimeters

antimeters is the plural of antimeter.

Meaning of antimeter

Noun (1)

antimeter (plural antimeters)

  1. (obsolete) A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
    • A description of Mr. Garrard's Antimeter, or Reflecting Circle, may be seen in his pamphlet, published in 1785; and in the article Antimeter, by the Author of this work1809, Andrew Mackay, The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land, page 78

Noun (2)

antimeter (plural antimeters)

  1. A contrasting rhythm or meter that deliberately interrupts or clashes with the naturally expected metrical pattern.
    • Blake and Dickinson looked in the same place for an anti-meter (Hollander's term) ; Blake's rough fourteeners employ a one-line adaptation of the meter Dickinson favored, the ballad or hymn stanza.2000, Annie Finch, The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, page 18

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Questions about antimeters

What is antimeters the plural of?
Antimeters is the plural of antimeter.

Words near antimeters in the dictionary

  1. antimetaphysics
  2. antimetastasis
  3. antimetastatic
  4. antimetathesis
  5. antimeter
  6. antimeters
  7. antimethanogenic
  8. antimethodologies
  9. antimethodology
  10. antimetric
  11. antimetrical

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