(comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent) 1  Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan. 2  Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mÃ¨tre, from the Greek noun Î¼Î­ÏÏÎ¿Î½, measure) is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m.
The meter is the metric system's base unit of length. Since 1983, the meter has been defined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second. The earliest definition of a meter had it as the one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole.