• The General Conference on Weights and Measures (abbreviated CGPM from the French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures): 117  is the supreme authority...
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    authority of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) and the supervision of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM). These...
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    per year, which is in turn overseen by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures, CGPM) that meets...
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  • fairness and transparency. Weights and Measures may also refer to: Various Weights and Measures Acts The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the...
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    Metrology (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    of Units (SI) as a result of a resolution at the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1960. Metrology is divided into three basic...
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    derived units. The system was promulgated by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures – CGPM) in 1960...
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    Carat (mass) (redirect from Carat (weight))
    and was finally proposed by the International Committee of Weights and Measures, and unanimously accepted at the fourth sexennial General Conference of...
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    of Weights and Measures (CGPM) was established. The CGPM produced the current SI, which was adopted in 1954 at the 10th Conference of Weights and Measures...
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    transition frequency of 133Cs as approved by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) on November 16, 2018. The kilogram is the only base...
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    Convention. They are the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), and the International...
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    between weight and mass, the term weight continued to be commonly used when people meant mass. This led the 3rd General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)...
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    has a specific activity of 3.66×1010 Bq/g). In 1975 the General Conference on Weights and Measures gave the becquerel (Bq), defined as one nuclear decay...
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    occasionally disrupt timekeeping systems worldwide. The General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted a resolution to alter UTC with a new system that...
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    National General Conference on Weights and Measures, Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices,...
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  • mho. The siemens was adopted by the IEC in 1935, and the 14th General Conference on Weights and Measures approved the addition of the siemens as a derived...
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    3rd General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1901, pages 62–64 and 68, (french) Proceedings of the 5th General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1913...
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    speed of light. The 21st General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, 1999) placed these efforts on an official footing, and recommended "that national...
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  • the General Conference on Weights and Measures decided to abandon the leap second by or before 2035, at which point the difference between TAI and UTC...
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  • activity, which is a property of the catalyst. The General Conference on Weights and Measures and other international organizations recommend use of the...
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  • The National Council on Weights and Measures (NCWM) is a not-for-profit standards development organization, dedicated to developing the United States...
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  • from the Greek νᾶνος (Latin nanus), meaning "dwarf". The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) officially endorsed the usage of nano as a standard...
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  • 3rd General Conference on Weights and Measures (1901, CR 70) and used to define the standard weight of an object as the product of its mass and this...
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    26th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) unanimously approved these changes, which the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM)...
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  • favor of the katal, the unit recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1978 and officially adopted in 1999. One katal is the enzyme...
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    Submillimetre astronomy "17th General Conference on Weights and Measures (1983), Resolution 1". International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Retrieved 3 December...
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    voted to submit a resolution for consideration at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), to "take note of an intention" that the kilogram...
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    Committee for Weights and Measures) in 1967, and in 1971, it was adopted by the 14th CGPM (General Conference on Weights and Measures). In 1961, the...
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    June 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Minutes of the 14. General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1971, p. 78. Table 3 (Section 2.2.2). Archived 18 June...
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  • the 9th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1948. The link between electromagnetic units and the more familiar units of length, mass and time was...
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    (hydrogen scale) and 760 mmHg under a gravity of 9.8067 m/s2). This definition was endorsed at the 7th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1927...
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