2006-12-20 22:42:14 · 18 answers · asked by ArskElvis 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
A meter is an instrument that measures and metre is a measurement of length
2006-12-20 22:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
perimeter means 'edge-measure'
geometry means 'measure the earth'
I think metre and meter originally come from the same root connected with measuring when they are used in this way.
Of course the Americans changed words like centre/metre to center/meter to simplify spellings just to complicate things!
Despite this - the bottom line is that metre/meter are connected to measuring - even an electricity meter still measures something.
2006-12-21 11:07:37 · answer #2 · answered by Stanleymonkey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meter is something that provides electricity but metre is a unit of measurement.
2006-12-21 03:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by bbz xox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. meter is a measuring instrument, and metre is a unit of measure. eg. the water meter measured the rate of flow.
eg. the swimming pool was 50 metres long.
2006-12-20 23:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by IAN J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they are different. And it is nothing to do with either English/US spelling.
As the educated say"Meter" is an instrument used to to display information, ie pressure,volts, amps, flow etc.
"Metre" is an SI unit of length..100cm.
Use yer common sense and look it up.
2006-12-22 09:28:22 · answer #5 · answered by TOG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in UK English, metre is a unit of linear measurement and meter is a measuring instrument.
metre is French, thus in UK we would say altimeter, the French is altimetre.
Thus in French metre means both linear measurement and a measuring instrument.
I think the Americans are the reverse of this maybe one of them will confirm
2006-12-20 23:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by Klamidia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 2 words are spelt differently. The 1st stands for the measuring device while the 2'nd stands for the measure of a length.Thanks for the question!
2006-12-20 22:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by essen 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maid Angela is right.
Although in the US they spell meter to mean a distance, whereas we use metre.
(as they do with theater, center etc.)
2006-12-20 22:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gray and Grey are both the same thing (the color), just different spellings of it. Like colour and color, favorite and favourite. Grey is the "English" way of spelling it. Kind of the same thing as people pronouncing things differently- tomato ~ta - may - toe ~ta - ma - toe envelope ~in - vel - ope ~on - vel - ope either ~i - ther ~e - ther .:.Hope that helps
2016-05-23 04:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by Ivette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Oz...Meter...means, to measure or a divice that registers units of measure..ie..electricity.......
Metre.....is a length of 1,000 millimetres or 100 centimetres.......
2006-12-21 01:18:29 · answer #10 · answered by ozzy chik... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋