Sentence examples for the kilogramme from inspiring English sources

I've always known that five miles is roughly 8km and that there are 2.2 pounds to the kilogramme, and use these numbers all the time.

I generally employ the kilogramme, metre, and second, and sometimes the foot, pound, and second, to measure a dynam or unit of force.

The new unit of mass would be derived from the metre, and would be natural by extension; it would be equal to the mass of a cube of pure liquid water, one-tenth of a metre high, deep, and wide, and would come to be known as the kilogramme.

The kilogramme was defined to be equal to the mass of the Kilogramme des Archives and this standard stood for the next ninety years.

However, the word grave, being a synonym for the title "count", had aristocratic connotations and was renamed the kilogramme.

The law 19 Frimaire An VIII (10 December 1799) defined the metre in terms of this value and the kilogramme as being 18827.15 grains.

Trained study nurses then instructed patients to squeeze the handle as much as possible and read to the nearest kilogramme where the needle stopped.

The 3 kilogramme pomegranate peel powder and the 2 kilogramme pomegranate seed powder were extracted with 50%% ethanol in triplicate at 85 °C, respectively.

The word kilogramme or kilogram is derived from the French kilogramme, which itself was a learned coinage, prefixing the Greek stem of "a thousand" to gramma, a Late Latin term for "a small weight", itself from Greek.

The word kilogramme was written into French law in 1795, in the Decree of 18 Germinal, which revised the older system of units introduced by the French National Convention in 1793, where the gravet had been defined as weight (poids) of a cubic centimetre of water, equal to 1/1000th of a grave.

Accordingly, the name of the original, defined unit of mass, "gramme", which was too small to serve as a practical realisation, was adopted and the new prefix "kilo" was appended to it to form the name "kilogramme".