meter

Pronunciation: [mi.tə(r)]

“meter” is a Malay word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités); a metre or meter.
A device that is used to measure and record something (distance, quantity of something used, etc.).

Etymology

Either from English metre or meter, or Dutch meter, from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of matra

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