Metrical \Met"ric*al\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter;
consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
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2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard,
etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the
metric system.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Algometer \Al*gom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? pain + -meter.] (Psychol.)
An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to
pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is
pressed against the skin. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
metrical
adj 1: based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric
system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: metric]
2: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: measured, metric]
WordNet (r) 2.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "metrical":
antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent,
chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic,
in numbers, in rhythm, measured, measuring, mensural,
mensurational, mensurative, metric, numerative, oceanographic,
prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic,
quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic,
trochaic, valuational, valuative
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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