metric system

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.
  2. 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
  3. Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.

词汇关系

近义词
metric SI
下位词
cgs mks MTS
相关词
metrication metric conversion decimalization

词源

From metric + system, from French métrique. See also meter.
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