Meter 02
Meter 02 :
(1) (Metrol) A measuring instrument. Unless otherwise specified, usually a device that integrates the value of a quantity being measured with respect to time. Note: A gas meter, for example, measures the volume of gas that passes through it. (2) (Metrol; Abb: m) A metric unit of length equal to 39. 37 inches and consisting of 100 centimeters, or 1000 millimeters. Note: Originally supposed to be 1/10,000,000 of the earth's meridian quadrant at sea level but now based on the red line of cadmium (1,553, 164. 13 wavelengths at standard conditions. In the international (SI) system, a meter is exactly 1,650,763. 73 wavelengths of the orange-red line of Krypton 86 under given conditions
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