meter
要点計器、メートル
意味
- (ガス・水・電気などの)計器,メーター
- (時間・速度・距離・強度などを測定,記録する)メーター,計器
- メートル(メートル法で長さの基本単位;3.28フィートに相当;《略》m)
- (詩の)韻律
- (楽曲の)拍子
例文
They were walking two hundred meters in advance.
彼ら２００メートル前を歩いていた。
An eagle's wings are more than one meter across.
鷲の羽は広げると１メーターにもなる。
The area of the factory is 1,000 square meters.
工場の面積は１０００平方メートルだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English 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”).