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  a suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state (abridgment; refreshment), a product (fragment), or means (ornament). -ment suffix indicating state, condition, or quality enjoyment indicating the result or product of an action embankment indicating process or action management word origin from french, from latin -mentum -ment suffix forming nouns, originally from […]

• -mer

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• -merous

  a combining form meaning “having parts” of the kind or number specified by the initial element: dimerous. compare -mer, -mere. -merous combining form (in biology) having a certain number or kind of parts dimerous word origin from greek meros part, division

• -meter

  a combining form meaning “measure,” used in the names of instruments measuring quant-ty, extent, degree, etc.: altimeter; barometer. compare -metry. -meter combining form indicating an instrument for measuring barometer (prosody) indicating a verse having a specified number of feet pentameter word origin from greek metron measure -meter suff. measuring device: refractometer.

• -metric

  a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -meter, (barometric) or -metry, (geometric).

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