metre|metres in English

noun

[me·tre || 'mɪːtər]

(British spelling for meter) basic unit of length in the metric system, one hundred centimeters, 39.37 inches; definite measurement; poetic measure; rhythm (in music); instrument that automatically measures quantities of substances (gas, water, or electricity)

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1. It is a 21 metre high, 750 metres long dam.

2. It's two and a half metres high and one metre wide.

3. It is 7,729 metres long and contains 14 grottoes, as well as a 13,969 metre underground river.

4. The climbing was staged on a 15 metre high Enterprise wall, which overhung by up to four metres.

5. A gradient of 1 in 4 is a rise of fall of one metre for every four metres forward.

6. The sport is contested in 100 metre, 500 metre, 700 metre, 1,000 metre, and 1,500 metre distances.

7. The originally 14-metre-high (46 ft) tower has a total height today, including antenna, of 21 metres (69 ft).

8. The new road is a dual 2-lane carriageway, 3 metres wide incorporating 1-metre-wide hard strips at each edge.

9. It is located between 1450 metre and about 5000 metre above sea level.

10. Electric field (volts/metre)

11. Cotton Blend Bengaline- Rainy Blue #4610 US$11.21 /metre BUY IN BULK: US$8.97 /metre

12. it costs 12 per metre.

13. He later finished third in the 400-metre hurdles and fifth in the 4000-metre steeplechase.

14. Baby-faced Aggression: Japan's Tsunoda ready to make F1 impact Diminutive: Yuki Tsunoda, left, at 1.59 metres (5ft 3in) is towered over by his 1.77-metre tall (5ft 9in) AlphaTauri teammate Pierre

15. He is a metre nothing.

16. Today there are the wall foundations of a rectangular building, a five-metre-long and 1.8-metre-side longitudinal wall, a four-metre-long and 0.4-metre-wide transverse wall which abuts on another wall that has yet to be uncovered.

17. The pyramid is 50 metres high and 100 metres round .

18. Less-common events include the 50 metres, 55 metres, 300 metres and 500 metres which are run in some high school and collegiate competitions in the United States.

19. altitude range: # metres

20. There are 100 centimetres to the metre.

21. Thon's palace is 125 metres long, 47 metres high, and has a total area of about 25,000 square metres.

22. Covering 4880 square metres, it rises to a height of 19 metres.

23. A carpet six metres square has an area of 36 square metres.

24. Three prisoners were sharing one small cell 3 metres by 2 metres.

25. Give your answer to the nearest metre.