bimeter

plural bimeters

1. dentistryA type of gnathodynamometer having an adjustable central-bearing point.

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

   1951, Jerome Meyer, Oral Rehabilitation, page 528

2. entertainmentThe setting of one meter against another.

   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).

   1973, Roland Nadeau, “The Grace and Beauty of Classic Rags: Structural Elements in a Distinct Musical Genre”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 59, number 8

3. communicationsA meter wherein each line has two metrical feet.

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

   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, page 310