The primary alignment tool is the meter stick for measuring distances from the edge.

But then we found an old meter stick in the little museum among the mummy cases, and we used that.

Then, atomic coordinates were recorded using a plumb bob and a meter stick.

I gazed at an eight-by-ten of a plaster cast, dirt-flecked, that stood next to a meter stick on a table.

Vibrating a meter stick at different frequencies when different lengths stick out past a table.

The one hundred centimeters on a meter stick are done this way.

It is NOT necessarily 100cm from the 0cm end of any other meter stick.

Speechless, Harold picked up a meter stick and thrust it delicately forward.

Recklessly he let go the meter stick, reached in and picked the fragile thing out of the bubble.

And the meter stick, which he had dropped inside the sphere, lay on the floor at his feet.