meterstick
noun
me·ter·stick
ˈmē-tər-ˌstik 
: a measuring stick one meter long that is marked off in centimeters and usually millimeters
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Tip o' the meterstick to Carolyn Porco.
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Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2011
Shouldn’t the meterstick be called either a length-meter or a meter-meter?
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2010
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Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2011
Shouldn’t the meterstick be called either a length-meter or a meter-meter?
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2010
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meterstick
noun
me·ter·stick
ˈmēt-ər-ˌstik
: a measuring stick one meter long that is marked off in centimeters and usually millimeters
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