(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.
Millimetre
Definition:
(n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medical and surgical therapy will be adapted to this millimetric scale.
(2) Seven incontrovertible arguments show that the only valid measurement unit for elastic stockings is the millimetre of mercury and not a grading system.
(3) Blood rheologic properties (blood and plasma viscosity, packed cell volume, erythrocyte aggregation rate and deformability) were examined in 40 patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers during a relapse and after treatment with millimetric electromagnetic waves (21) and medication (19).
(4) However, although the former have larger tuberculin reactions, the difference is still so small (of the order of a few millimetres) that the tuberculin reaction cannot be used in practice to differentiate the two groups.
(5) An ultrasound Doppler system capable of measuring flow velocities of one millimetre per second in the presence of one thousand times stronger interfering signals is described, as well as test results using both thread and flow phantoms.
(6) Their axon and its collaterals were very fine and sometimes measured several millimetres.
(7) Unless they are furnished with an adequate blood supply and a means of disposing of their waste products by a mechanism other than diffusion, solid tumours cannot grow beyond a few millimetres in diameter.
(8) When measuring ridge reduction, the standard deviation was 0.21 millimetres.
(9) If the balloon diameter exceeds the measured vessel diameter by 1 or 1.5 millimetres, vessel overdilatation may reach up to 70% of the original size.
(10) The number of intraepithelial T lymphocytes per millimetre of surface epithelium was significantly higher in untreated than in treated CD patients or controls; it was also significantly higher in specimens with epithelial DP expression than in those without.
(11) This program was added to the software of a GE 8800 CT scanner to perform the following operations: millimetre precise calculation and display of the rectilinear coordinates of a target identified on axial CT images; preplotting of phantom target trajectories on the CT images or electronic radiographs; calculation of probe angles required to achieve various trajectories; display of a coordinate scale on each CT image to allow direct target determination without mathematical calculations; calculation of the intercommissural plane for functional neurosurgery.
(12) The polar recesses, superior and inferior to lumbar facet joints, are filled by fat pads from which fat-filled synovial folds project between the articular surfaces for a distance of two to four millimetres.
(13) In Awassi sheep, the total number of wool follicles per square millimetre was affected significantly by age, sex, and type of birth.
(14) The average numbers of microfilariae and onchocercal punctate opacities per square millimetre were assessed.
(15) It was two millimetres or more in radiocarpal joint and it got bigger in dorsal and smaller in volar flexion.
(16) With a thickness of less than one thousandth of a millimetre, the “glass” (it’s really a film) transmits light visible to the human eye, while selectively capturing and converting ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity to power a mobile device and extend its battery life.
(17) Shortening of 15 to 20 millimetres at the fracture site was well compensated for by accelerated growth.
(18) The technique and instruments of PAP, Krompecher and Jaros allow a precise preparation of the femoral head, acetabulum, femoral condyles and tibial plateau in the donor and recipient for the application of homograft transplants of joint articular surfaces of 5 millimetre thickness.
(19) Nearly two-thirds of the patients had overgrowth of the femur of 10 millimetres or more.
(20) Lukaku was millimetres from connecting with Deulofeu’s inviting cross to the far post while another Everton substitute, the impressive Muhamed Besic, drew a finger-tip save from Lloris with a volley from 18 yards.