(n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
(n.) A poem.
(n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.
(n.) See Meter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(2) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(4) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
(5) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(6) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
(7) Last month Kelli White, who won the 100 and 200 metres at the 2003 world championships in Paris, was banned for two years and stripped of her medals after admitting using THG.
(8) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
(9) In Warwickshire, my parents are about 100 metres from the line and will soon exist on a major construction site, amid temporary living compounds for hundreds of workers and closed-off roads.
(10) Each member of the team has a narrow bed and only three cubic metres of personal space.
(11) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(12) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
(13) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(14) The 777 has enjoyed one of the safest records of any jetliner built.” Besides last year’s Asiana crash, the only other serious incident with the 777 came in January 2008 when a British Airways jet landed 305 metres short of the runway at London’s Heathrow airport.
(15) It was found that at a torque of 0.7 Newton-metres, the caliper became detached at the maximum load, but still held during traction at torques above this value.
(16) The walking distance of the patients increased from an average of 288 to 401 metres.
(17) Sunday trading laws allow all stores to open for six hours between 10am and 6pm, while small shops with a floorspace of less than 280 sq metres (3,000 sq ft) can open all day.
(18) Although four class I synthetases of heterogeneous lengths and unknown structures are believed to be historically related to MetRS, pair-wise sequence similarities in the region of this RNA binding determinant are obscure.
(19) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
(20) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
Micrometre
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter can penetrate the lungs and pass into the bloodstream and have been linked to increased rates of chronic bronchitis, lung cancer and heart disease.
(2) The volume of cytoplasm occupied by electron-dense cored vesicles was significantly increased, whilst their density per square micrometre of cytoplasm was decreased during hypoxia.
(3) With regard to the disappearance of osteocytes in the bone cortex at the cut surfaces of bones, micrometric findings revealed that there was a great difference between the scalded and the unscalded side in every group except in the group where a Gigli's saw was used.
(4) In addition to visual examination and photographic evaluation of restorations, the micrometric assessment of replica photographs from the scanning electron microscope may render clinical trials of amalgam alloys measurable and less subjective.
(5) Our studies reveal the presence of an intact mesothelial lining of the arachnoid mater, including its villus-like projections and herniations into the dural sinus and its lacunae, adjacent cells being joined by tight junctions; in addition we have observed for the first time that many lining cells in the region of the superior sagittal sinus are characterized by unit membrane-bound, electron-optically empty giant vacuoles of several micrometres diameter.
(6) The layer thickness can be controlled and may range between some hundred nanometres and up to a few micrometres.
(7) changed morphology from rods of about 6 to 8 microns long to multicellular filaments (unsheathed trichomes) up to many hundreds of micrometres long with the addition of glycine or certain D-amino acids to the growth medium.
(8) In this context, microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, devised for problem solving, are being applied to frequently encountered sub-micrometre particulates which are 'unstable' with respect to methods of sample preparation and storage used routinely for particulates prior to analysis.
(9) Fifteen micrometres radiolabelled dextran spheres were injected into three adult monkeys; after measuring reference flows, the animals were killed and biopsies were taken from skin and 15 oral mucosal regions.
(10) (1) Formation of extensive contact zones (with a linear size of several micrometres) with tight intermembrane adhesion (more than 30% of the membrane contours in adhesive zones were separated by an apparent distance lower than 500 A) was essentially completed within less than one minute.
(11) In the past, researchers quantified spine density as the number of visible spines per estimated micrometre of dendrite.
(12) Morphological changes in the epidermis caused by aging and sun exposure were studied by light microscopy and micrometric techniques.
(13) On cooling the dispersion from the isotropic phase, we have observed the formation of long (of the order of hundreds of micrometres), thin (0.2-2 microns) filaments, which fluctuate strongly.
(14) The number of cell nuclei and the thickness of the media and intima were determined micrometrically along 8 radii of each cross-section.
(15) The device measures the threshold pressure required to produce bubbles from the micropipette submerged in a liquid and displays the tip inner diameter in micrometres.
(16) The incidence of occult nodal metastases was highest in patients with deeply invasive and micrometrically thick primary tumors.
(17) Methods were tested in four subjects using a micrometric procedure of Doppler probe displacement providing instantaneous real time velocity profiles.
(18) Perijunctional membrane had a Na+ current density 5- to 10-fold greater than the density several hundred micrometres from the end-plate.
(19) The scale of organization is a critical factor in the characterization of biosilicification processes, and order at the nanometre, micrometre and macroscopic levels is described.
(20) The authors report the case of a patient suffering from collagen colitis in whom the administration of omeprazole achieved the rapid and total abolition of the clinical signs and a significant reduction of the collagen band (measurements determined over 10 cryptic spaces using a graduated micrometric ocular microscope).