metergram

English

Etymology

meter +‎ gram

Noun

metergram (plural metergrams)

1. A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metergram”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)