METER

Meter

Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented . Hence it may also refer to the pattern of lines and accents in the verse of a hymn or ballad, for example, and so to the organization of music into regularly recurring measures or bars of stressed and unstressed "beats", indicated in Western music notation by a time signature and bar-lines.

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meter

Noun

  1. (always meter) A device that measures things.
  2. A parking meter.
  3. One who metes or measures.
  4. 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.
  5. An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
  6. The rhythm pattern in a poem.
  7. A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

Verb

  1. To measure with a metering device.
  2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter


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