Sentence examples for metric system and from inspiring English sources

Chafee is likely the only presidential candidate to endorse the metric system and equivocate on Isis.

It's impossible to make admissions a metric system, and it's healthy that it is not".

He was a prominent figure during the French Revolution, helping to establish the metric system and the École Polytechnique.

Under a previous Union plan, Britain and Ireland would have been required to adopt the metric system and phase out imperial measurements by 2009.

Metre (m), also spelled meter, in measurement, fundamental unit of length in the metric system and in the International Systems of Units (SI).

Centimetre (cm), also spelled centimeter, unit of length equal to 0.01 metre in the metric system and the equivalent of 0.3937 inch.

EUROPEAN MAPS TO DROP LIECHTENSTEIN METER AND YARD SHAKE HANDS Throwing a sop to metric system proponents and detractors alike, officials at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology decided to split the difference between the meter and yard, creating a new length, roughly 37.8 inches long.

But it sure does cause problems in travel, and the new president should get the country to adopt the metric system once and for all.

Such was America's new-found enjoyment of soccer that the professional troll, Ann Coulter, wrote not one but two columns about her hatred of the sport, comparing it to the metric system, Beyoncé and – just for good measure – Hillary Clinton.

In the metric system, multiples and sub-multiples of units follow a decimal pattern, a concept identified as a possibility in 1586 by Simon Stevin, the Flemish mathematician who had introduced decimal fractions into Europe.

Remember that outside the United States the metric system prevails and measurements will be in meters, not feet.