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/ɛmz/ · noun
Meaning
- A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
- Abbreviation of million.
- Thousand
- A prescribed quantity or extent.
- The act or result of measuring.
- Metrical rhythm.
- A course of action.
- (always meter) A device that measures things.
- (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- (always meter) One who metes or measures.
- (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
- (elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
- (elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
- The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
- Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
- (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
- A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
- (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
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