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In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

ch transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.

An instrument, resembling a eudiometer, to detect the presence and amount of methane, as in coal mines.

An instrument for measuring the size of the womb. Knight.

An instrument for measuring conductivity.

A chronoscope.

, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass. Circular, or Ring, micrometer, a metallic ring fixed in the focus of the obj…

The millionth part of a meter.

An instrument for noting minute portions of time.

A seismometer for measuring amplitudes or periods, or both, of microseisms. --Mi`cro*seis*mom"e*try (#), n.

A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.

A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

, a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since its last adjustment.

To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.] Chaucer.

A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter.

A myodynamometer.

An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer. Dunglison.

A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.

An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.

An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.