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)
Would not such a ridiculous systemofweightsandmeasures paralyze exchange and demoralize industry?
2
The accepted systemofweightsandmeasures, the calendar-nothingwas too well tried to compete with innovation.
3
A uniform systemofweightsandmeasures.
4
Virtue and honesty are "a systemofweightsandmeasures, balances struck between man and man."
5
A new systemofweightsandmeasures, known as the metrical, was planned, and a new mode of reckoning time was introduced.
6
The entire world-excludingUS citizens and a few headhunters in New Guinea whose systemofweightsandmeasures revolves around the human skull.
7
He gains the battle; he makes the code; he makes the systemofweightsandmeasures; he levels the Alps; he builds the road.
8
He fostered commerce by the construction of roads, by the establishment of an excellent police system , and introduced a uniform systemofweightsandmeasures.
9
But we have just seen that the annual expense of retaining the old systemofweightsandmeasures is over $300,000,000.
10
11 advocates the preservation of the Anglo-Saxon systemofweightsandmeasures.
11
The General Conference on Weights and Measures made it part of the International Systemofweightsandmeasures in 1960.
12
With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the International Systemofweightsandmeasures in 1875.