megameterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɛˈɡɐˌmɪtə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /mɛˈɡɐˌmɪtəɹ/, [mɛˈɡɐˌmɪɾɚ]

名詞

megameter (plural megameters)

1. An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
2. A micrometer.(Can we verify this sense?)

語源 2

From mega- (“one million”) +‎ meter.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɛɡəˌmiːtəɹ/

名詞

megameter (plural megameters)

1. US spelling of megametre.
   • 2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15:

     Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.

参照

• “megameter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Me-gam′e-ter”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC, page 1419, column 1.

アナグラム

• megametre