british imperial system
1British Imperial System — ▪ measurement system British Imperial and U.S. Customary systems of weights and measures British Imperial and U.S. Customary systems of weights and measurestraditional system of weights and measures used officially in Great Britain from… …
2British Imperial system of units — imperinė vienetų sistema statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Didžiosios Britanijos oficialioji skysčių ir biralų matavimo vienetų sistema. atitikmenys: angl. British Imperial system of units; imperial system of units rus.… …
3British Imperial System — noun a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint • Syn: ↑English system, ↑British system • Hypernyms: ↑system of weights and measures • Part Meronyms: ↑avoirdupois unit …
4imperial system of units — imperinė vienetų sistema statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Didžiosios Britanijos oficialioji skysčių ir biralų matavimo vienetų sistema. atitikmenys: angl. British Imperial system of units; imperial system of units rus.… …
5imperial system — the traditional system of weights and measures in Britain which is gradually being replaced by the metric system. Customary measure used in the US is similar to the imperial system with a few slight differences. Although most imperial measures… …
6British Imperial and U.S. Customary systems of weights and measures — ▪ Table British Imperial and U.S. Customary systems of weights and measures unit abbreviation or symbol equivalents in other units of same system metric equivalent Weight Avoirdupois1 avdp ton short ton 20 short hundredweight, or 2,000 pounds 0 …
7(the) imperial system — the imperial system [the imperial system] the traditional system of weights and measures in Britain which is gradually being replaced by the ↑metric system. Customary measure used in the US is similar to the imperial system with a few slight… …
8imperial system — /ɪmˌpɪəriəl ˈsɪstəm/ (say im.peareeuhl sistuhm) noun a system of non metric weights and measures established in Great Britain in 1824, previously used throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth, including Australia, and still used for some… …
9Imperial units — the units of the British Imperial system, adopted by Parliament in 1824. The basic units of the system are the foot, the avoirdupois pound, and the Imperial pint. The Weights and Measures Acts of 1963 and 1985 have redefined the Imperial… …
10British capacity unit — noun a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet • Syn: ↑Imperial capacity unit • Hypernyms: ↑liquid unit, ↑liquid measure, ↑dry unit, ↑dry measure • Hyponyms …
