Dictionary of English - metre or meter

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In their most obvious applications, a metre is a measure (just over three feet) and a meter a measuring device: The gas meter is about a metre from the back door. This means that words ending in -metre relate to a length and those in -meter apply to a measuring instrument: The speedometer showed how fast we were travelling in kilometres per hour. However, the US spelling of all metre words is meter: Like the British, Americans reckon distances in miles, not kilometers.

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