metric weights and measures
1Weights and Measures Act (R.S. 1985) — is a Canadian law governing the units of measurements used in Canada.Originally passed in 1970 as part of the federal government s plan for metrication of Canada from Imperial measures, it was stopped in 1985 and changes were made to the Act. The …
2Weights and Measures Act — A Weights and Measures Act is an Act of Parliament determining trade law where the weight or size of the goods being traded are important. For example, if a bottle of milk is for sale and has a label saying it contains one pint, then the law… …
3Weights and Measures — Exponents immediately follow the ^ symbol throughout this appendix. Mathematical Power Name 10^18 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 one quintillion 10^15 or 1,000,000,000,000,000 one quadrillion 10^12 or 1,000,000,000,000 one trillion 10^9 or… …
4Cooking weights and measures — Metric measuring spoons …
5British Weights and Measures Association — The British Weights and Measures Association, or BWMA, is a pressure group established in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1995,cite web last = first = authorlink = coauthors = title = Database of archives of Non Governmental Organisations BWMA work =… …
6Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States — The Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States was a report submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives on July 13, 1790 by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.At the First United States… …
7General Conference on Weights and Measures — The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the English name of the Conférence générale des poids et mesures (CGPM, never GCWM). It is one of the three organizations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the… …
8British 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 …
9system of weights and measures — noun system of measurement for length and weight and duration • Hypernyms: ↑system of measurement, ↑metric • Hyponyms: ↑British Imperial System, ↑English system, ↑British system, ↑metric system, ↑ …
10Metric time — is the measure of time interval using the metric system, which defines the second as the base unit of time, and multiple and submultiple units formed with metric prefixes, such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. It does not define the time of day,… …
