METERとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

接尾辞

-meter

1. Used to form the names of measuring devices.

使用する際の注意点

• Whereas the spelling of the unit of length varies between British (metre) and American (meter) English, the spelling of this suffix is -meter in both. -metre is a nonstandard alternative form found in British English.
• Words with the suffix -ometer always have a primary stress on the antepenultimate syllable: barometer, speedometer, tachometer, etc. Words derived from meter (または metre) with a prefix usually have a primary stress on the first syllable: centimeter, millimeter, etc.

派生語

アナグラム

• -metre, -treme, Emert, metre, remet, retem

語源

Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmitəɹ/, [ˈmiɾɚ]
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtə/
  • 韻: -iːtə(r)

名詞

meter (複数形 meters)

1. (always meter) A device that measures things.
2. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

   gas meter (also falls under sense 1)

3. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.

   a labouring coal-meter

4. (chiefly 米国用法 spelling, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:

     Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

5. (chiefly 米国用法 spelling, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
6. (chiefly 米国用法 spelling, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
7. (chiefly 米国用法 spelling, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
8. (obsolete) A poem.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robynson (More's Utopia) to this entry?)

派生語

動詞

meter (三人称単数 現在形 meters, 現在分詞 metering, 過去形および過去分詞形 metered)

1. to measure with a metering device.
2. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter
3. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation または breath)

アナグラム

• -metre, -treme, Emert, metre, remet, retem

Latin

動詞

mēter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of mētor