meter-n; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: 1.094 yards

Commentary: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Examples:
Don't worry his water gun can't squirt farther than one meter.
The smoker ran almost six meters before he began panting.

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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: unit for measuring

Commentary: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity

Examples:
I should go back, I didn't put enough money in the parking meter.

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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: beat

Commentary: metre, measure, beat, cadence -prosody - the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Examples:
In French poetry , meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line.

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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 4: rhythm

Commentary: metre, time -rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

Examples:
The irregular meter was comprised of patterns of beats of different lengths.

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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4