Definition of "hypermetric" []

• Having one or more syllables in addition to those found in a standard metrical unit or line of verse. (adjective)
• Being one of these additional syllables. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Inertia, as light, was timefree and could be transported through ghost holes to the urg's hypermetric locus where no human mind could reason its digestion."
• "This hypermetric entity Zeke called an urg, because it sounded like erg, which was the quality that this thing had turned Carl's 150 - pound mass into."
• "_hypermetric_; and that we must be very watchful about pauses, particularly about a somewhat mysterious chief pause, liable to occur about the middle of a line, called a _caesura_."