Metre

//ˈmiːtəɹ//

"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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