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System of weights and measures

noun

System of measurement for length and weight and duration.

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... government has succeeded in determining a standard of QUANTITY, it may, it should also fix a standard of QUALITY; one of these standards is the necessary complement of the other. The monetary unit, the system of weights and measures, have not infringed upon industrial liberty; no more would it be damaged by a ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... time, only three countries - Burma, Liberia, and the US - have not adopted the International System of Units (SI, or metric system) as their official system of weights and measures. Although use of the metric system has been sanctioned by law in the US since 1866, it has been slow in displacing the American adaptation of the British Imperial System known as the US Customary System. The US is ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

Words linked to "System of weights and measures" : system of measurement, metric system, British Imperial System, United States Customary System, metric, British system, English system