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Metric system
Meaning
Noun
●
The
s
ystem 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
base
d on the
base units
of the meter/metre, the
kilogram
, the second, the
ampere
, the
kelvin
, the
mole
, and the candela.
●
Any
variant
of that system, that was not
codified
as SI, such as cgs.
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Synonyms
Metric
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