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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Meter \Me"ter\, Metre \Me"tre\, n. [OE. metre, F. m[`e]tre, L.
   metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete}
   to measure.]
   1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses,
      stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on
      number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm;
      measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical
      arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

            The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.
                                                  --Wordsworth.

   2. A poem. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's Utopia).

   3. A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the
      standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights
      and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly,
      the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to
      the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an
      arc of a meridian. See {Metric system}, under {Metric}.

   {Common meter} (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines,
      making a stanza, the first and third having each four
      feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; --
      usually indicated by the initials C.M.

   {Long meter} (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines of four feet
      each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly
      indicated by the initials L. M.

   {Short meter} (Hymnol.), iambic verses or lines, the first,
      second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third
      four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but
      is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the
      initials S. M.

Metre \Me"tre\, n.
   See {Meter}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

metre
     n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme
          International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn:
           {meter}, {m}]
     2: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: {meter},
         {measure}, {beat}, {cadence}]
     3: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time [syn: {meter},
         {time}]

資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

metre
     
         (US "meter") The fundamental {SI} unit of length.
     
        From 1889 to 1960, the metre was defined to be the distance
        between two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar kept in the
        vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau
        of Weights and Measures near Paris.
     
        This replaced an earlier definition as 10^-7 times the
        distance between the North Pole and the Equator along a
        meridian through Paris; unfortunately, this had been based on
        an inexact value of the circumference of the Earth.
     
        From 1960 to 1984 it was defined to be 1650763.73 wavelengths
        of the orange-red line of krypton-86 propagating in a vacuum.
     
        It is now defined as the length of the path traveled by light
        in a vacuum in the time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
     
        (1998-02-07)