Medical Dictionary

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noun me·ter

Medical Definition of METER

:  the base unit of length in the International System of Units that is equal to the distance traveled in a vacuum by light in 1/299,792,458 second or to about 39.37 inches

Variants of METER

me·ter or chiefly British me·tre \ˈmēt-ər\
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