Meter (disambiguation)
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Meter or metre can mean:
- Metre, a unit of measurement
- Meter (poetry), the regular linguistic sound patterns of verse
- Metre (music), the regular rhythmic patterns of music
- The Meters, a funk band
- Meter, or measuring instrument, including electric meter, gas meter, parking meter, postage meter
- Meter maid, or parking attendant, a person who reads a meter
- Meter, an Anatolian-Aegean mother goddess, see Cybele
In Commonwealth and Canadian English the unit of length and the poetical or musical concepts are spelt metre, but a measuring device is spelt meter. In American English all of the above are spelled meter. See also American and British English differences.
es:Micrómetro fr:Mètre (homonymie) it:Metro (disambigua) nl:Micrometer ja:メーター