

ms
/Ιmz/
noun








noun
(always meter) A device that measures things.



noun
(elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.







noun
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.


noun
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (ι) or Arabic mile (al-mΔ«l).






























