Usually means: Encounter where two entities converge.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. meets: Merriam-Webster
  2. meets: Collins English Dictionary
  3. meets: Vocabulary.com
  4. Meets, meet's, meets: Wordnik
  5. meets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. meets: Wiktionary
  7. meets: Dictionary.com
  8. meets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. meets: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meets: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meets: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MEETS: Acronym Finder
  2. meets: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meets: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (meet)

verb:  To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
verb:  To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
verb:  To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
verb:  To get acquainted with someone.
verb:  (Of groups) To come together.
verb:  To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
verb:  To come together in conflict.
verb:  (sports) To play a match.
verb:  To make physical or perceptual contact.
verb:  To converge and finally touch or intersect.
verb:  To touch or hit something while moving.
verb:  To adjoin, be physically touching.
verb:  (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
verb:  To satisfy; to comply with.
verb:  (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
verb:  To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
verb:  To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
noun:  (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
noun:  (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (informal) A meeting.
noun:  (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
adjective:  (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
adjective:  (obsolete) Submissive; passive.
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