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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the metric system: Metric system – various loosely related systems of measurement...
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  • Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology Timeline of time measurement technology Measurement Metrologia Outline of the metric system Books...
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    The metric system is a decimal-based system of measurement. The current international standard for the metric system is the International System of Units...
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  • According to Schadow and McDonald, metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century...
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    the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. Coordinated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures...
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  • influence from the UK and USA has also been cited as a reason for residual use of imperial units. Australia portal Outline of the metric system ""Dollar Bill"...
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  • Centimetre of water Conversion of units Inch of mercury Outline of the metric system Pascal (unit) Pressure head Pressure Devices similar to the modern barometer...
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    Metrication or metrification is the act or process of converting to the metric system of measurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned from...
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  • relation, metric, topology). A partial list of possible structures are measures, algebraic structures (groups, fields, etc.), topologies, metric structures...
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  • In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a metric tensor (or simply metric) is an additional structure on a manifold M (such as a surface) that...
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    below usually tell the length and width of the components in tenths of millimeters or hundredths of inches. For example, a metric 2520 component is 2...
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    British system, and the metric system. The earliest known uniform systems of weights and measures seem all to have been created at some time in the 4th and...
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  • of the recognized arbitrary units are used in biochemistry and medicine. Any metric unit in any common system of units can be expressed in terms of the...
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  • a software metric is a standard of measure of a degree to which a software system or process possesses some property. Even if a metric is not a measurement...
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    The International System of Quantities (ISQ) is a standard system of quantities used in physics and in modern science in general. It includes basic quantities...
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    Herbert Treadwell (1906). Outlines of the Evolution of Weights and Measures and the Metric System. New York and London: The Macmillan Company. p. 34....
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    unique history of units of measurement due to its radical decision to invent and adopt the metric system after the French Revolution. In the Ancien régime...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to energy: Energy – in physics, this is an indirectly observed quantity often understood...
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    equivalent for all coordinate systems. This is made possible by an understanding of the metric tensor that tensor calculus makes use of. Mathematics portal Vector...
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    gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System List of Solar System extremes List of Solar System objects by size Outline of the Solar System Planetary mnemonic –...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astronomy: Astronomy – studies the universe beyond Earth, including its formation...
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  • than the millimetre. Examples include the fermi (fm). Arc length Humorous units of length Length measurement Metric system Metric units Orders of magnitude...
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  • The centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to software engineering: Software engineering – application of a systematic, disciplined...
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    is the source of its self-similar fractal nature. Formally, an iterated function system is a finite set of contraction mappings on a complete metric space...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to physics: Physics – natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to black holes: Black hole – mathematically defined region of spacetime exhibiting...
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    Presidentialism metrics allow a quantitative comparison of the strength of presidential system characteristics for individual countries. Presidentialism metrics include...
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    Decimal time (redirect from Metric hour)
    the metric system, rather than including metric units for time, repealed the mandatory use of decimal time, although its use continued for a number of years...
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    Minkowski metric η is the metric tensor of Minkowski space. It is a pseudo-Euclidean metric, or more generally, a constant pseudo-Riemannian metric in Cartesian...
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