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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Metrical \Met"ric*al\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter;
        consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard,
        etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the
        metric system.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Algometer \Al*gom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? pain + -meter.] (Psychol.)
     An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to
     pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is
     pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try, n. --
     Al`go*met"ric, *met"ric*al, a. -- Al`go*met"ric*al*ly,
     adv.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Metrical \Met"ric*al\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter;
        consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
  
     2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard,
        etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the
        metric system.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Algometer \Al*gom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? pain + -meter.] (Psychol.)
     An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to
     pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is
     pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try, n. --
     Al`go*met"ric, *met"ric*al, a. -- Al`go*met"ric*al*ly,
     adv.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  metrical
       adj 1: based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric
              system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: metric]
       2: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: measured, metric]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  metrical
     a.
     1 relating to poetic meter
     2 having a regular rhythm
     3 of or pertaining to measurement

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  metrical
     a.
     1 relating to poetic meter
     2 having a regular rhythm
     3 of or pertaining to measurement

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  metrical
     a.
     1 relating to poetic meter
     2 having a regular rhythm
     3 of or pertaining to measurement

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  metrical
     a.
     1 relating to poetic meter
     2 having a regular rhythm
     3 of or pertaining to measurement

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Metrical /mˈɛtɹɪkəl/
  متري

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  metrical /mˈɛtɹɪkəl/ 
  metrický

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  metrical /mˈɛtɹɪkəl/
  metrisch 

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  metrical //ˈmɛtɹɪkl̩// 
  runomitallinen
  relating to poetic meter

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  metrical /mˈɛtɹɪkəl/
  1. verselési
  2. versmértékes
  3. méterrendszerû
  4. idômértékes
  5. metrikus
  6. méter-

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈmɛtɹɪkəɫ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "metrical":
     antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent,
     chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic,
     in numbers, in rhythm, measured, measuring, mensural,
     mensurational, mensurative, metric, numerative, oceanographic,
     prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic,
     quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic,
     trochaic, valuational, valuative
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 韵律的,有韵律的,测量的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 韵律的,有韵律的,测量的

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