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Meanings of system of weights and measures in English

Russian
система мер
Portuguese
sistema de unidades
Spanish
sistema de unidades
Catalan
sistemes de mesura

Set of base units and derived units, together with their multiples and submultiples, defined in accordance with given rules, for a given system of quantities (International Vocabulary of Metrology)

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Usage of system of weights and measures in English
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Would not such a ridiculous system of weights and measures paralyze exchange and demoralize industry?
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
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The accepted system of weights and measures, the calendar-nothingwas too well tried to compete with innovation.
The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830
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A uniform system of weights and measures.
The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
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Virtue and honesty are "a system of weights and measures, balances struck between man and man."
Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)
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A new system of weights and measures, known as the metrical, was planned, and a new mode of reckoning time was introduced.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The entire world-excludingUS citizens and a few headhunters in New Guinea whose system of weights and measures revolves around the human skull.
G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
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He gains the battle; he makes the code; he makes the system of weights and measures; he levels the Alps; he builds the road.
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
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He fostered commerce by the construction of roads, by the establishment of an excellent police system , and introduced a uniform system of weights and measures.
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But we have just seen that the annual expense of retaining the old system of weights and measures is over $300,000,000.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
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11 advocates the preservation of the Anglo-Saxon system of weights and measures.
International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of F...
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The General Conference on Weights and Measures made it part of the International System of weights and measures in 1960.
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With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the International System of weights and measures in 1875.
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