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bimeter en · NOUN

Etymology

From bi- + meter or bi- + -meter.

Meanings

1. A type of gnathodynamometer having an adjustable central-bearing point.
   • It is unfortunate that the bimeter cannot be used in dentulous cases. 1951, Jerome Meyer, Oral Rehabilitation, page 528:
2. The setting of one meter against another.
   • A sophisticated variant of the bimeter in Figure 7 occurs when the values in the right-hand part are not even, but nevertheless establish a feeling of meter opposed to that in the bass (Figure 8). 1973, Roland Nadeau, “The Grace and Beauty of Classic Rags: Structural Elements in a Distinct Musical Genre”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 59, number 8:
3. A meter wherein each line has two metrical feet.
   • […] two poems combine tetrameters with trimeters, and two others tetrameters with bimeters. 1982, Willem Pieter Gerritsen, “Coornhert and Boethius: A Side-Light on the Genesis of Dutch Renaissance Verse”, in D.H. Green, editors, From Wolfram and Petrarch to Goethe and Grass, page 310:

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