metric system

Significado (Inglés)

1. The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.
2. The modern version of that system, Système International d'Unités (International System of Units), or SI that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.
3. Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.

Conceptos

sistema métrico

Sistema internacional de unidades

Sinónimos

decimal system

International System of Units

metric

unit of measurement

centimeter-gram-secondsystem

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmɛtɹɪk ˌsɪstəm/

Etimología (Inglés)

Compound of metric + system, from French métrique. See also meter.