English-Spanish translations for metre

• metro
  No hablemos entonces de los 1 000 metros. Let us not then talk about 1 000 metres.
  Comisario, ¿es la de 1.000 metros una cifra arbitraria? Commissioner, is the 1 000 metre figure an arbitrary figure?
  Actualmente, este glacial se derrite y mueve a una velocidad de dos metros por hora... ¡dos metros por hora! This glacier is now melting and it is moving at two metres an hour - two metres an hour!

Definition of metre

• The basic unit of length in the International System of Units , equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to imperial inches
• The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
• To put into metrical form

Related words

• millimetre
• newton-metre
• decimetre
• centimetre
• kilometre
• diametre
• micrometre
• nanometre
• yottametre