| reading meter reading | the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments, he has a job meter reading for the gas company |
electric meter
power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
gas meter
gasometer | a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe |
| gravimeter gravity meter | a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth |
light meter
exposure meter
photometer | photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light |
| meter | any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity |
| parking meter | a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space, depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time |
| postage meter | meter for bulk mailings that imprints correct prepaid postage on pieces of mail and records the total charge |
| water meter | meter for measuring the quantity of water passing through a particular outlet |
meter
metre
time | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration |
reading meter reading
indication | a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument, he could not believe the meter reading, the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm |
law of gravitation
Newton's law of gravitation | (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
Newton's law of motion
Newton's law
law of motion | one of three basic laws of classical mechanics |
first law of motion
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's first law | a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force |
second law of motion
Newton's second law of motion
Newton's second law | the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force |
third law of motion
Newton's third law of motion
Newton's third law
law of action and reaction | action and reaction are equal and opposite |
theory of gravitation
theory of gravity
gravitational theory
Newton's theory of gravitation | (physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
heroic verse
heroic meter
heroic | a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes, dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter |
meter
metre
measure beat cadence | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
common measure
common meter | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad |
| meter maid | policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets |
Newton
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton | English mathematician and physicist, remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (-) |
square meter
square metre
centare | a centare is
th of an are |
kiloliter
kilolitre
cubic meter
cubic metre | a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to liters |
newton
N | a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of m
sec
sec to a mass of kilogram, equal to , dynes |
meter
metre
m | the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately . yards) |
| kilogram-meter | a unit of work equal to the work done by a one kilogram force operating through a distance of one meter |
| meter | measure with a meter, meter the flow of water |
| meter | stamp with a meter indicating the postage, meter the mail |