Meterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

enPR: mē′tər, 韻: -iːtə(ɹ)

• IPA: /ˈmitəɹ/, [ˈmiɾɚ] (General American)
• IPA: /ˈmiːtə/ (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA: /ˈmiːʈəʳ/ (Indic)

enPR: mĕt′ər, 韻: -ɛtə(ɹ)

restoration of original French pronunciation

• IPA: /mĕʈ.ɜʳ/ (Indic, less commonly)
• ハイフネーション: me‧ter

語源 1

From 中期英語 metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from 古期英語 metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) +‎ -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc.

Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).

名詞

meter (countable and uncountable, plural meters)

1. A device that measures things.
   1. A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

      gas meter

2. (dated) One who metes or measures.

   a labouring coal-meter

3. (American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

派生語

関連する語

• metster

動詞

meter (third-person singular simple present meters, present participle metering, simple past and past participle metered)

1. To measure with a metering device.
2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
3. To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

語源 2

Borrowed from French mètre, itself borrowed from Latin metrum, borrowed from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).

名詞

meter (countable and uncountable, plural meters)

1. US standard spelling of metre (“unit of measure”).
   • 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN‎:

     No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 meter, metre, from 古期英語 meter and Old French metre; both from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).

名詞

meter (countable and uncountable, plural meters)

1. US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”).
2. (obsolete) A poem.
   • 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:

     A meter of […] berses in the Utopian tongue

派生語

アナグラム

• -metre, -treme, Emert, metre, remet, retem

動詞

mēter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of mētor