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meters

meters is the plural of meter.

meters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of meter.

Meaning of meter

Noun (1)

meter (countable and uncountable, plural meters)

  1. A device that measures things.
    1. A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
      • gas meter
  2. (dated) One who metes or measures.
    • a labouring coal-meter
  3. (US) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Noun (2)

meter (countable and uncountable, plural meters)

  1. (obsolete) A poem.
    • A meter of […]berses in the Utopian tongue1551, 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...

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Questions about meters

What is meters the plural of?
Meters is the plural of meter.

Words near meters in the dictionary

  1. meterless
  2. meterlessness
  3. meterman
  4. metermen
  5. meterologist
  6. meters
  7. meterstick
  8. metersticks
  9. metes
  10. metes and bounds
  11. metes out

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