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    The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined...
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    The square metre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the unit...
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    In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats. Unlike rhythm...
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    Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used...
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  • Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated...
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    The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics...
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  • prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and forms of versification...
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    with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time), metre (m, length), kilogram (kg, mass), ampere (A, electric current), kelvin (K...
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  • The metre per second squared is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI). As a derived unit, it is composed from the SI base...
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    Look up cubic metre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The cubic metre (in Commonwealth English and international spelling as used by the International...
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    The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-meter (109.36 yd)...
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  • men's 3 metre springboard competition was held on 7 June. The men's 10 metre platform competition was held on 8 June. The men's synchronized 3 metre springboard...
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  • Common units used for this measurement include the reciprocal metre or inverse metre (symbol: m−1), the reciprocal centimetre or inverse centimetre (symbol:...
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    The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight...
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  • Duple metre (or Am. duple meter, also known as duple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated...
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  • their derivation: for example, the square metre (m2), the SI derived unit of area; and the kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m3 or kg⋅m−3), the SI derived unit...
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  • The metre–tonne–second (MTS) system of units was invented in France (hence the derived unit names sthène and pièze) where it became the legal system between...
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    The newton-metre or newton-meter (also non-hyphenated, newton metre or newton meter; symbol N⋅m or N m) is the unit of torque (also called moment) in the...
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    Pascal, is an SI coherent derived unit defined as one newton per square metre (N/m2). It is also equivalent to 10 barye (10 Ba) in the CGS system. Common...
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    The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance...
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    The history of the metre starts with the Scientific Revolution that is considered to have begun with Nicolaus Copernicus's publication of De revolutionibus...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up metre, mètre, métré, or -mètre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meter or metre is a unit of measurement of length...
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  • The metre, kilogram, second system of units, also known more briefly as MKS units or the MKS system, is a physical system of measurement based on the...
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    the 3000 metres steeplechase. The 2000 metres steeplechase is the next most common distance. In youth athletics, a distance of 1000 metres is occasionally...
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  • Vedic metre refers to the poetic metre in the Vedic literature. The study of Vedic metre, along with post-Vedic metre, is part of Chandas, one of the...
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    The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic...
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    The 100 metre freestyle is often considered to be the highlight (Blue Ribbon event) of the sport of swimming, like 100 metres in the sport of Athletics...
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  • series of 6 shots each). The 25 metre military pistol, which was won using a Colt revolver, was a separate event. 20 metre military pistol event for professionals...
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  • Common metre or common measure—abbreviated as C. M. or CM—is a poetic metre consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical...
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    done when a force of one newton displaces a mass through a distance of one metre in the direction of that force. It is also the energy dissipated as heat...
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