a device that measures and records the amount of electricity, gas, water, etc. that you have used or the time and distance you have travelled, etc.

a machine next to the road that you put money into when you park your car next to it

a device for measuring the thing mentioned

a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres

<i>an athlete running at 10 meters per second</i>

<i>Who holds the record in the 100 meters?</i>

the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this

to measure something (for example how much gas, electricity, etc. has been used) using a meter

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