an instrument for measuring and recording the amount of something used, e.g. gas, electricity, or parking time
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meterormetre? In British English a metre is a measurement of length equal to 100cm, while a meter is a measuring instrument: to read the meter. Likewise, in British English, the rhythmic pattern of a line of poetry is its metre, though the words for specific types of metre end in -er: hexameter; iambic pentameter. In American English the spelling meter is used for all these senses