meter sticks
Hundred centimeter rulers
Meter sticks are measuring instruments one meter in length, marked with centimeter and millimeter gradations.
Standard equipment in science classrooms and workshops, they serve for measuring moderate lengths and demonstrating metric units: The teacher handed out meter sticks for the lab exercise.
Also called metre sticks in British English.
- graduationsCeremonies completing formal education
- lengthMeasure of extent
- measurementsQuantified sizes or amounts
- scaleMeasure of relative size
- rulerOne who governs
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