metreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• meter

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmiːtə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmiːtəɹ/, [ˈmiːɾɚ]
• ハイフネーション: me‧tre
• 韻: -iːtə(ɹ)

語源 1

From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether.

名詞

metre (plural metres)

1. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.

   Holonyms: kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre

   Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre

   • 1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, number 3:

     The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.

   • 1873 April, The Young Englishwoman:

     A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.

   • 1928 April 15, The Observer:

     The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.

   • 2025 August, “The International System of Units (SI)”, in Bureau International des Poids et Mesures‎, archived from the original on 17 September 2025, page 147:

     It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm or square millimetre), cc (for either cm or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).

使用する際の注意点

• The spelling metre is used by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English-language texts, and is used in all English-speaking countries other than the US. The spelling used in the US is meter—for instance, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual use meter.

同意語

• m

派生語

(Metric scale)

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: mita
• → Burmese: မီတာ (mita)
• → Chinese: 米突 (mǐtū, mǐtú)
• → Japanese: メーター (mētā)
• → Korean: 미터 (miteo) (South Korea), 메터 (meteo) (North Korea, China)
• → Maori: mita
• → Malay: meter
• → Sinhalese: මීටර් (mīṭar)
• → Swahili: mita
• → Tamil: மீட்டர் (mīṭṭar)
• → Yoruba: mítà

参考

• Appendix on SI Units

参照

“metre”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Further reading

• SI prefixes
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures

動詞

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (UK, rare) Alternative spelling of meter.

使用する際の注意点

The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.

語源 2

From 古期英語, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).

名詞

metre (countable and uncountable, plural metres)

1. (UK, Canada) The rhythm or measure in language (especially verse) and musical composition.

   Hyponym: musical time

動詞

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

参考

• metronome
• metric
• Wikipedia article: metre (poetry)

アナグラム

• -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem

派生語

アナグラム

• -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem