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6,091 words match “MET”

MISMETER v.
To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.] Chaucer.
MITIS METAL n.
The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; -- called also simply mitis.
MOIRE METALLIQUE n.
A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.
MONODIMETRIC a.
Dimetric.
MONOMETALLIC a.
Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
MONOMETALLISM n.
The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
MONOMETALLIST n.
One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.
MONOMETER n.
A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter.
MONOMETRIC a.
Same as Isometric.
MONOSYMMETRIC; MONOSYMMETRICAL a.
Same as Monoclinic.
MONTESSORI METHOD n.
apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).
MUDDY-METTLED a.
Dull-spirited. Shak.
MUNTZ METAL n.
See under Metal.
MYODYNAMIOMETER n.
A myodynamometer.
MYODYNAMOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer. Dunglison.
MYRIAMETER; MYRIAMETRE n.
A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.
NAUROPOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.
NEPHELODOMETER n.
An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
NEPHELOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
NILOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
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