meets

noun

(sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.

(hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.

(rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

(informal) A meeting.

(algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

verb

To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

To come face to face with someone by arrangement.

To get acquainted with someone.

(Of groups) To come together.

To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.

To come together in conflict.

(sports) To play a match.

To make physical or perceptual contact.

To converge and finally touch or intersect.

To touch or hit something while moving.

To adjoin, be physically touching.

(transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.

To satisfy; to comply with.

(intransitive) To balance or come out correct.

To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

adjective

(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

(obsolete) Submissive; passive.

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