metier
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"
Metis
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
metonym
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card"
metonymic
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated; "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"
metonymical
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated; "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"
metonymically
— Biord
– Engelsk
～ in a metonymic manner
metonymy
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
metopion
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull
metoprolol
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ beta blocker (trade name Lopressor) used in treating hypertension and angina and arrhythmia and acute myocardial infarction; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.)
metralgia
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ pain in the uterus
Metrazol
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark
metre
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
metre
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
metre
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
metrestick
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters)
metric
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
metric grain
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
metric
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds); "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric"
metric hundredweight
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
metric function
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them