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1. metres

   The metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure"), symbol m, is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), though its prefixed forms are also used relatively frequently. The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's circumference is approximately 40000 km. In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was changed in 1889). In 1960, the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition was adopted in 1983 and modified slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length. From 1983 until 2019, the metre was formally defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second. After the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units, this definition was rephrased to include the definition of a second in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs.

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1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'metres' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3035

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'metres' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2754

Anagrams for metres »

1. S meter

2. merest

3. meters

How to pronounce metres?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of metres in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of metres in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of metres in a Sentence

1. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak:

   In general we focus on the total amount laid out in the strategy (of energy sector development): around 525 million tonnes (10.5 billion cubic metres per day).

2. Elizabeth Clare:

   We were even able to collect eDNA from animals that were hundreds of metres away from where we were testing without a significant drop in the concentration, and even from outside sealed buildings. The animals were inside, but their DNA was escaping.

3. Rhiannan Iffland:

   It doesn't matter how many times you perform a dive. You still get up there 22 metres (72 feet) high and you still have all these negative emotions, to overcome that fear is something that I cannot express.

4. Paul Barrett:

   Stegosaurus was actually an animal that could get up to 9 metres in length and weigh several tonnes, this is the average size tooth for a Stegosaurus; pretty tiny with a business end, the crown, that's really only a few millimetres across. So using these very tiny feeble teeth to fuel that big body has always been a bit of a mystery.

5. Villager Peng Jinxin:

   At one point the running mud was only ten metres away from me.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metres