Decimal system of units that uses the metre as the basis for its unit of length.
1There is one rational objection to the metric system and but one.
2It's time to move to the metric system like everyone else.
3No wonder we are not allowed to have the metric system.
4And remember in Northern Ireland you can shove your metric system: not an inch.
5Must be hard to measure things right when you're using that durned metric system.
6Then, besides, the amount of figuring is so much less in the metric system.
7Then all institutions of learning use the metric system exclusively whenever this is possible.
8He also pulled off a joke about the metric system.
9Scientists are universally agreed as to the wisdom of the adoption of the metric system.
10He opened a debate on the metric system, concerning which he had solid and well-thought-out opinions:
11The work also contains copious historical notices on the metric system and on the initial meridian.
12No better means of sickening the American children with the metric system could have been devised.
13Considering that she came from a country that used the metric system, I should have been impressed.
14Tenth, the metric system is wonderfully simple.
15France, for example, has the metric system.
16And being raised without the metric system is like being raised with a harness on your brain.
Translations for metric system