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Wiktionary

  1. sterenoun

    A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic meter.

  2. Etymology: French stère, from Greek στερεος solid, because the unit was used for solid commodities such as firewood.

Wikipedia

  1. Stere

    The stere or stère (st) is a unit of volume in the original metric system equal to one cubic metre. The stere is typically used for measuring large quantities of firewood or other cut wood, while the cubic meter is used for uncut wood. The name was coined from the Greek στερεός stereós, "solid", in 1795 in France as a metric analogue to the cord. The unit was introduced to remove regional disparities of this former unit, for which the length could vary greatly from 6 to 13.5 m. It is not part of the modern metric system (SI) and is no longer a legal unit in France, but remains used in the commerce of firewood.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sterenoun

    a unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards

  2. Stere

    to stir

  3. Sterenoun

    a rudder. See 5th Steer

  4. Sterenoun

    helmsman. See 6th Steer

  5. Etymology: [F. stre, fr. Gr. solid.]

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  1. Stere

    The stere or stère is a unit of volume in the original metric system equal to one cubic metre. The name was coined from the Greek στερεός stereos, "solid", in 1793 France as a metric analogue to the cord. The stère is typically used for measuring large quantities of firewood or other cut wood, while the cubic meter is used for uncut wood. It is not part of the modern metric system. In Dutch there's also a kuub, short for kubieke meter which is similar but different. Whereas a "kuub" is a full cubic metre, as it was traditionally used for wood a stère is a cubic metre pile of woodblocks. Such a stère is a little bit less than a kuub or full cubic metre of wood, because the spaces between the woodblocks are included in a stère while they're not in a kuub. In Finnish, the same unit is known as motti. Note that the stère as used in contexts outside the timber industry is not subject to the same ambiguity. In particular, stère and kilostère are sometimes used in hydrology, as the kilostere is a slightly larger metric analog of an acre-foot, similar to the relationship of the tonne and ton.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Stere

    stēr, n. a cubic unit of metric measure—a cubic mètre, equivalent to 35.3156 English cubic feet.—Decastère=10 steres; Decistère=110 stere. [Fr. stère—Gr. stereos, solid.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STERE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stere is ranked #132206 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Stere surname appeared 128 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Stere.

    94.5% or 121 total occurrences were White.

Anagrams for Stere »

  1. ester

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  3. reset

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  8. trees

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Stere in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Stere in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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