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Usage examples of meter.

Stevens had read his meters, learning with satisfaction that the full current was still flowing into the accumulators, he began to cut up the meat.

Loose regular meter, alliteration, stylised phrasing, and structuring by repetition are the principal poetic devices.

As a backup to the recycling systems, each arcology would tow along an asteroid several hundred meters across, to be mined as needed.

If we do not change by either adopting an assimilationist program or insisting on metered and legal immigration, or both, we shall soon see a culture in southern and central California that really is a hybrid civilization, a zona libre not unlike what already exists in parts of inner Los Angeles and many rural California towns such as Orange Cove, Mendota, Malaga and Parlier.

Although individual bacteria also use omnidirectional radiation to communicate with their closest neighbors at the distances of up to a few millimeters, the strength of such signal is very low and it cannot be used for communications at a long range of, say, tens of meters.

The Barracuda had gone down in more than a thousand meters of water with all hands lost.

Helena pointed at what appeared to be a metal boomerang about a meter across.

After a bit of inspection, Richard was fairly certain that the alien thing had once been a metal boomerang about a meter or so from tip to tip.

A circle ten meters across appears in midair and seems to sink into the sand until a Brane Hole cuts a slice out of space and time.

At a thousand feet above them the disc went into a bravura display of falling-leaf motion, finally swooping around the platform until it came to rest a few meters above and a meter out from the safety rail.

As Srin peered intently at the patches of light on the surface of the instrument, Manship suddenly guessed that they were meter readings.

That, Manship realized, was how he had learned that the shifting patches of light on the spheroid were meter readings.

Something else the Property Protection chief knew was that the extensive electric and gas metering and controls were on the lowest floor.

He knew exactly where the Molt was going to appear, but spraying the area a hundred and fifty meters down the wash would have been suicidal.

If he had fired as he intended into the center of mass of the warrior coalescing a meter away, the satchel charge the Molt was clutching to his chest would have gone off and vaporized the jeep.