Sentence examples for metrication from inspiring English sources
noun
Conversion to the use of the metric system; metrification
The complaint of the anti-metrication forces, he said, is that the U.S. Metric Board, established in 1975, has promoted metrication as if it were mandatory.
To persuade the government to adopt such an unpopular cause, the push for metrication will have to be hefty whether that pressure is measured in easy-to-understand hectopascals, or fuddy-duddy pounds per square inch.
Nor did the fact that continental Europeans, influenced by the perfidious doctrine of metrication that the French revolution invented and Napoleon disseminated, long ago decided to quote their stock prices decimally.
Tells how he figures that government bureaucrats are a stronger force for conversion than the board, and that metrication might come about through what amounts to the bureaucratic imperative.
Luckily, people who hated the metric system were able to blame Congress, too, since the whole mess might never have occurred if our nation's legislators hadn't decided, with the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, to nudge America toward full metrication.
After speaking with his wife's best friend, Andrea and helping her write a paper on the failure of metrication they sleep together.
The possibility that metrication might never come did not occur to the writer until he heard of Seaver Leslie, the founder of an anti-metrication organization called Americans for Customary Weight and Measure.
The possibility that metrication might never come did not….
Leslie insists that metrication is not inevitable.
Leslie was inspired by an English anti-metrication leader named John Michell, who believes the whole question is metaphysical.
According to a paper by Jim Humble, OBE, the last director of the UK Metrication Board, "there were many positive debates" on the metric system in the second half of the 19th century, although it was not until 1969 (three years before Britain joined the EEC) that Tony Benn created the board, with a target date for completion of 1972.
