A device used for measuring things, such as a parking meter for collecting payment.
(American spelling) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds.
(American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
To measure with a metering device.
To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).