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See also: mega-meter
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
megameter (plural megameters)
- An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
- A micrometer.
Etymology 2[edit]
mega- (“one million”) + meter
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
megameter (plural megameters)
- US spelling of megametre
- 2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15:
- Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.
Translations[edit]
megametre — see megametre
References[edit]
- “megameter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Me-gam′e-ter”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC, page 1419, column 1.