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2. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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   The table of imperial avoirdupois mass is the same as the United States table up to one pound, but above that point, the tables differ. The imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb (50.802 345 44 kg), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb (45.359 237 kg). In both systems, 20 hundredweights make a ton.

3. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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   The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

4. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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   The Weights and Measures Act 1897 authorized the use of metric units for trade; a list of metric to imperial equivalents being published the following year. [ 20 ] Under the Weights and Measures Act 1824 custody of the standard yard and pound and custody of the administration of weights and measures was entrusted to the Exchequer but ...

5. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   A baby bottle that measures in three measurement systems—metric, imperial (UK), and US customary. Metric systems of units have evolved since the adoption of the first well-defined system in France in 1795. During this evolution the use of these systems has spread throughout the world, first to non-English-speaking countries, and then to ...

6. English units - Wikipedia

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   1878 41 & 42 Vict. c. 49 — Weights and Measures Act 1878 defined the Imperial standard yard and pound; enumerated the secondary standards of measure and weight derived from the Imperial standards; required all trade by weight or measure to be in terms of one of the Imperial weights or measures or some multiple part thereof; abolished the Troy ...

7. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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   Note that measurements in this section are in imperial units. British imperial measures distinguish between weight and volume. Weight is measured in ounces and pounds (avoirdupois) as in the U.S. Volume is measured in imperial gallons, quarts, pints, fluid ounces, and fluid drachms. The imperial gallon was originally defined as 10 pounds (4. ...

8. Public and traders ‘want to go back’ to using imperial ...

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   The move to open the door to wider use of imperial measures and weights has been labelled ‘a nonsense’ by one Tory MP. Public and traders ‘want to go back’ to using imperial measures, says ...

9. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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   The United States Code refers to these units as "traditional systems of weights and measures". [31] Other common ways [citation needed] of referring to the system are: customary, standard, English, or imperial (which refers to the post-1824 reform measures used throughout the British Empire & Commonwealth countries). [32]