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Definition of Meterstick
1. Noun. A rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters).
Definition of Meterstick
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meterstick
Literary usage of Meterstick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten-minute Activitiesby Martha Cheney, Ethel Condon, Marilyn Evans by Martha Cheney, Ethel Condon, Marilyn Evans (2001)
"Show the ruler, the yardstick, or meterstick, and a book. Discuss the length of
each measuring instrument. 2. Ask students to first estimate the length and ..."
2. Nonfiction Reading Practice, Grade 2 by Kristen Kunkel (2003)
"This is a meterstick. You might use a centimeter ruler or a meterstick. Use a
centimeter ruler to measure small things like a book. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1899)
"Levers, principles with meterstick, three-cornered file arid weights. 3 Weighing:
a) with meter stick and file; b) with equal beam balance; ..."
4. The Elementary School Teacher and Course of Study by JSTOR (Organization), University of Chicago School of Education (1902)
"... approximately at right angles, and suspending over the meterstick a continuous
plumbline, equipped with three sliding beads and a bob at each end. ..."
5. Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics by James Byrnie Shaw (1918)
"... human experience apparently, or at most are convenient in the same sense that
a meterstick is useful, or equally the king's arm, or the pace he sets. ..."
6. The Peace Tangle by John Foster Bass (1920)
"... measure peoples with the same meterstick. Numbers in population and in
manufactured products are ..."
7. The Pharmaceutical Syllabus by Pharmaceutical Syllabus Committee (1922)
"... tables, height of student, etc., by means of meterstick and footrule Draw
diagrams of laboratory and furniture on scale of 2 centimeters to meter, ..."
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