unmetered

• a word derived from meter.
  meter

  noun

  the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. m

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unmetered

He said: "They bring in a professional jointing team because it must be done live, which is extremely dangerous. That gives them an unmetered supply."

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

There is one small unmetered lot at the top of the canyon, but it fills up quickly, according to hikers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

As in all good things, there are negative side effects stemming from free-range roaming and unmetered usage.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021

Ms. Myles’s best poems may be informal and unmetered, but they are rhetorically organized and they curve their way toward the important questions about life and art and love.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015

Fredrika Bremer, whose prose is often unmetered poetry even after translation, wrote of Niagara in a brief poem.

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Frank H. Severance

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