meterstick — noun Date: 1931 a measuring stick one meter long that is marked off in centimeters and usually millimeters … New Collegiate Dictionary
Faster-than-light — (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light. Science fiction style space travel, dubbed true FTL, defies known physics.Under the special theory of… … Wikipedia
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compass — Synonyms and related words: Gyrosin compass, Johansson block, RDF, T square, accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, aesthetic distance, alentours, ambience, ambit, amount, annex, attain, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, border line,… … Moby Thesaurus
gauge — Synonyms and related words: Johansson block, T square, adjust, amount, amplitude, appraise, appreciate, area, assay, assess, barometer, basis, benchmark, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, calculate, caliber, calibrate, caliper, calipers, call, canon … Moby Thesaurus
metrestick — noun a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) • Syn: ↑meterstick • Hypernyms: ↑rule, ↑ruler … Useful english dictionary