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English
Etymology
Compound of metric + system, from French métrique. See also meter.
Pronunciation
Noun
metric system
- The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.
- The modern version of that system, Système International d'Unités (International System of Units), or SI that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.
- see Appendix on SI Units
- Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.
Synonyms
- metric (abbreviation)
- (système international): SI
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
system of measurements developed in France
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