meter
or chiefly Brit me*tre n : the base unit of length in the International System of Units that is equal to the distance traveled in a vacuum by light in 1/299,792,458 second or to about 39.37 inches , n : an instrument for measuring and sometimes recording the time or amount of something .
Similar sounding terms: mad·der mater mat·ter mat·tery
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