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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Metre Convention (redirect from Conference of the Meter)
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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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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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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Metric system (redirect from Metric weights and measures)
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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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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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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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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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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Unit of measurement (redirect from History of Weights and Measures)
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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SI base unit (redirect from Standards and Units)
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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Kilogram-force (redirect from Gram-weight)
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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National General Conference on Weights and Measures, Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices,...
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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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Siemens (unit) (section Notes and references)
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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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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Curie (unit) (section As a measure of quantity)
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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Standard gravity (redirect from Standard weight)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Pascal (unit) (section Hectopascal and millibar units)
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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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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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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alternatives. The authority behind the SI system, the General Conference on Weights and Measures, recognised and acknowledged such traditions by compiling a list...
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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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Leap second (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
the International Committee for Weights and Measures, and in 1960 by the General Conference on Weights and Measures, becoming a part of the International...
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Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero (section From the Map Commission to the Geographic and Statistical Institute in Spain)
platinum and iridium prototype of the metre to all States parties to the Metre Convention during the first meeting of the General Conference on Weights and Measures...
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