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Metre
"Metre" in a Sentence (16 examples)
A metre is 100 centimetres.
The words above the door of the theatre were a metre high.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
All trees and shrubs must be trimmed so that their branches are no closer than one metre from a power line.
The polar caps partially melted and the sea level rose about a metre, so that more than a billion people on coastal areas had to be evacuated.
Gosh! I weigh the same as a 2.4-metre guy. I have to grow!
A British-Australian couple fell to their deaths in Portugal after trying to take a selfie from a 30 metre high wall overlooking the beach.
The table is a metre wide.
A metre is a hundred centimetres.
The chest is almost a metre wide.
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Holonyms: kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre
The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.
A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.
The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.
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 mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
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