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Metric system   /mˈɛtrɪk sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Metric system

noun
1.
A decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second.





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... Warsaw, but Poland, was at the feet of the Emperor. Confiscations, imprisonments, and banishments to Siberia were the least terrible of the punishments. Every germ of a Polish nationality was destroyed—the army and the Diet effaced, Russian systems of taxes, justice, and coinage, and the metric system of weights and measures used in Russia were introduced,—the Julian Calendar superseded the one adopted all over the world—the University of Warsaw was carried to Moscow, and the Polish language was prohibited to be taught in the ...
— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele


Words linked to "Metric system" :   International System, metric weight unit, system of weights and measures, Systeme International d'Unites, cgs, si, cgs system, International System of Units, SI system, SI unit, weight unit, Systeme International


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