(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.
meter definition. The basic unit of length in the metric system; it was originally planned so that the circumference of the Earth would be measured at about forty million meters. A meter is 39.37 inches. Today, the meter is defined to be the distance light travels in 1 / 299,792,458 seconds.