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metre noun

: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration


  • There's a bank about a hundred metres from the library.
  • Motorists must leave at least a metre-wide buffer when passing cyclists.
  • The tower is fifteen metres high.
  • The town's highest point is 592 metres above sea level.
  • The grenade exploded five metres from the soldiers.
  • The green alien is humanoid and stands at 3.7 metres.
  • The blue whale grows to over 30 metres long.
  • He can run a thousand metres in four minutes.
  • The words above the door of the theatre were a metre high.
  • Will they break the ten-second mark in the hundred-metre race?
  • The one-hundred-metre run starts at two in the afternoon.
  • That is 30 metres long.
  • A metre is 100 centimetres.
  • His car was three metres long.
  • The lake has a diameter of 100 metres.
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