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Meanings of system of weights and measures in английском

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система мер
португальский
sistema de unidades
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sistema de unidades
каталонский
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 английском
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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.
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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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