Bimeter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A type of gnathodynamometer having an adjustable central-bearing point.

    "It is unfortunate that the bimeter cannot be used in dentulous cases."

  2. 2
    The setting of one meter against another.

    "A sophisticated variant of the bimeter in Figure 7 occurs when the values in the right-hand part are not even, but nevertheless establish a feeling of meter opposed to that in the bass (Figure 8)."

  3. 3
    A meter wherein each line has two metrical feet.

    "[…] two poems combine tetrameters with trimeters, and two others tetrameters with bimeters."

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"It is unfortunate that the bimeter cannot be used in dentulous cases."

Etymology

From bi- + meter or bi- + -meter.

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