имя существительное 1) [сокращение] m метр (единица длины; то же, что и 100 см) 2) размер, ритм, метр (в стихосложении, музыке) Например: anap(a)estic metre — анапест dactylic metre — дактиль heroic metre — эпический метр iambic metre — ямб trochaic metre — хорей
chiefly British variant of meter
(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.