bimeter

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ meter or bi- +‎ -meter.

Noun

bimeter (plural bimeters)

1. (dentistry) A type of gnathodynamometer having an adjustable central-bearing point.
   • 1951, Jerome Meyer, Oral Rehabilitation‎^[1], page 528:

     It is unfortunate that the bimeter cannot be used in dentulous cases.

2. (music) The setting of one meter against another.
   • 1973, Roland Nadeau, “The Grace and Beauty of Classic Rags: Structural Elements in a Distinct Musical Genre”, in Music Educators Journal‎^[2], volume 59, number 8:

     A sophisticated variant of the bimeter in Figure 7 occurs when the values in the right-hand part are not even, but nevertheless establish a feeling of meter opposed to that in the bass (Figure 8).

3. (poetry) A meter wherein each line has two metrical feet.
   • 1982, Willem Pieter Gerritsen, “Coornhert and Boethius: A Side-Light on the Genesis of Dutch Renaissance Verse”, in D.H. Green, editors, From Wolfram and Petrarch to Goethe and Grass‎^[3], page 310:

     […] two poems combine tetrameters with trimeters, and two others tetrameters with bimeters.