Sentence examples for metric equivalent of from inspiring English sources

Fifteen hundred metres is the "metric equivalent" of the mile.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: September 8, 2010 An earlier version of this article misstated the metric equivalent of 1,000 feet.

Routine microscope slides were fixed at 3 × 1 inches during the Victorian era and are still produced at the metric equivalent of those dimensions (7.5 × 2.5 cm) today.

Called "90-60-90," thequivalentquivalent of the 36-24-36 fisure that is considered to be the feminine ideal here, it drew record crowds to see items that included photographs of "Miss Cloaca," a contestant in an imaginary "alternative" Miss Venezuela pageant, as well as a work made from the fat extracted from liposuction operations.

The moniker references the car's 1 megawatt of output, the metric equivalent of 1,341 horsepower, which makes the Toroidion the first electric car to break a barrier that only a handful of gasoline-powered cars have surpassed.

The ounce poids de marc had therefore a metric equivalent of 30.59 g.

To obtain a metric equivalent to the combination of horizontal and vertical smooth pursuit gain, phase error data were two-point differentiated and smoothed with a ten-point moving average filter.

In 1974 grain stocks were estimated at 89 million metric tons, the equivalent of barely four weeks' consumption, and there is little idle land left in "surplus" countries.

It will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 14,000 metric tons, the equivalent of removing 3,000 cars off the roadways or powering almost 2,000 American homes a year.

One study estimates the amount of plastic waste lost at sea at 8 million metric tons: the equivalent of "five plastic grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world".

According to the Renewable Fuel Association, "biofuels consumed under the RFS have reduced U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 354 million metric tons....the equivalent of avoiding carbon dioxide emissions from 74 million passenger cars".