Sentence examples for a system of units from inspiring English sources

Since 1990, almost all electrical measurements have been calibrated using a system of units in which Planck's constant, along with various other constants, are defined rather than measured.

The English-speaking countries also used a system of units of fluid measure, or in modern terminology volume units, based on the apothecaries' system.

The 1999 Abalone Management Plan set up an individual transferable quota (ITQ) system through a system of "units" which were initially attached to each commercial abalone licence by means of an endorsement called a "catch entitlement".

Furthermore, we plan to incorporate other unit systems such as the 'Imperial System', which is a system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act (50), as well as the 'United States customary units', a system of measurements that contains similar units to the 'Imperial System' and is adopted in the USA (51).

For example, the Toda lattice equation governs a system of unit masses connected by nonlinear springs whose restoring force is exponential.

A system of unit cost functions (which are compatible with constant returns to scale) can be used to model the economy-wide technological structural equilibrium and the propagation triggered by any exogenous productivity gain.

In April 1953, 1 RAR was replaced by 2 RAR on a system of unit rotation.

However, in 1915 a system of unit colour patches was adopted, worn on the upper arm of a soldier's jacket.

The PMC model defines a system of n units as t-diagnosable if all faulty units can be diagnosed provided the number of faulty units does not exceed t [19] (t is also called the diagnosability of the system).

Amaral, L. A. N. et al. Power Law Scaling for a System of Interacting Units with Complex Internal Structure.

In February, MoMA opened its first Media Lounge, a system of modular units on the second floor that presents the museum's collection of single-channel videos.