transcription, транскрипция: [ mi:tə(r) ]
( metres)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'meter'
1.
A metre is a metric unit of length equal to 100 centimetres.
Chris Boardman won the Olympic 4,000 metres pursuit...
The tunnel is 10 metres wide and 600 metres long.
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2.
In the study of poetry, metre is the regular and rhythmic arrangement of syllables according to particular patterns. ( TECHNICAL )
They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre...
All of the poems are written in traditional metres and rhyme schemes.
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