Sentence examples for metric unit of from inspiring English sources

Stere, metric unit of volume equal to one cubic metre, or 1,000 litres.

Micrometre, also called micron, metric unit of measure for length equal to 0.001 mm, or about 0.000039 inch.

Although the are is the primary metric unit of land measurement, in practice the hectare is more commonly used.

But the nation was broke, and "he feared that the U.S. wouldn't be able to verify the metric unit of length without sending a costly delegation to France". Apparently politics also played a role; France and the U.S. also weren't getting along at the time.

The (metric) unit of pressure in the scientific international system of units (known as the SI system) is newton per square metre (N/m2), where one newton (N) is the force that gives a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of 1 m/s2.

He introduced the term "horsepower" and the metric unit of power is named after him.

The crash was traced to a simple communication problem one engineering group used metric units of measurement, another used English units but that explanation masks a more complex underlying problem.

The concept of value, expressible in the metric units of the phenotype is central in quantitative genetics.

The variables included in the space-time scan analysis were population data, number of cases (adjusted for age and sex), and the Cartesian coordinates (UTM Projection-Zone 21 South, metric units) of the census tract centroids.

The UK English [ 27] and Chinese (Hong Kong) [ 28] SF-36 with 4-week recall and metric units of measurement were used in this study (previously validated for use in Singapore) [ 25].

It is easier to use metric units of measurement for this kind of thing.