meter???????????????

Question

well,
i was in class leaning about measurements and we came to a hult..
one of our classmates (the nerd) ask were the name came from..
and my teacher said that was a great idea
then he said.."you know wwat?....ill make that extra credit work."
im trying to get extra credit
so can you plz help me???
thank you soooo much!☺
ill deticate this extra credit to you!
p.s.(i am looking for how they named the meter)

Answer 1

Definition
The origins of the meter go back to at least the 18th century
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html

Inherited from the vocabulary of the very different Greek and Latin quantitative system.
http://www.answers.com/topic/meter-poetry

In English verse the metre (rhythm) of a poem is determined by the particular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in the line. In Greek verse stress accent played no part; the metre of a poem depended on the number of syllables in a line and on their ‘quantity’, i.e. whether they were long or short. Hence Greek verse (and also Latin; see LATIN 1 below) is often described as ‘quantitative’, the quantity of a syllable being determined by a number of factors which governed the length of time it took to pronounce (for the rules of quantity see PROSODY). A line of Greek verse is thus composed of words which fit a pattern of long and short

Answer 2

A meter was originally supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian

Meter was already been used in connection with various measuring devices, such as a speedometer, an ohmmeter, etc.

It comes from the ancient greek word métron, which means measure. To mete out something is to distribute alloquots, especially if they are meager..

Answer 3

An invented dimension

Answer 4

the word "taximete" dates from 1898 took its name from the french taximetre