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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Metrical \Met"ric*al\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Algometer \Al*gom"e*ter\, noun [Gr. ? pain + -meter.] (Psychol.) An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- {Al*gom"e*try}, noun -- {Al'go*met"ric}, {*met"ric*al}, adjective -- {Al'go*met"ric*al*ly}, adverb [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
metrical
adjective
1: based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: {metric}]
2: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: {measured}, {metric}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "metrical": antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent, chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, measured, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, metric, numerative, oceanographic, prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic, trochaic, valuational, valuative
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