stadium
Stadium is a 7 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter M for which we found 3 definitions.
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| (n.) A Greek measure of length being the chief one used for itinerary distances also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet or 125 Roman paces or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia. |
| (n.) Hence a race course; especially the Olympic course for foot races. |
| (n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying) a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia and stadia rod. |
Syllable Information
The word stadium is a 7 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for stadium is: sta-di-um
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