The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word METER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result METER
- Measuring device used in extreme terrain
- Measure encountered by Her Majesty
- Measuring device encountered resistance with input ofenergy
- It measures oxygen expelled by a shooting star
- Measuring instrument‘s forte, subtract one
- Measuring device that announces length
- Visitors to Buckingham Palace may have poetic quality
- Measuring device agreed with every reading initially
- Measure space rock that’s out of the ordinary
- Instrument to measure a distance, reportedly
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What does METER mean?
METER noun- (always meter) A device that measures things.
- (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- (always meter) One who metes or measures.
- (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
- (elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
- (elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
- (elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
- A poem.
- To measure with a metering device.
- To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
- To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).