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2. 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.

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

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   The Winchester measure was made obsolete in the British Empire but remained in use in the US. [c] The Winchester bushel was replaced with an imperial bushel of eight imperial gallons. The subdivisions of the bushel were maintained. As with US dry measures, the imperial system divides the bushel into 4 pecks, 8 gallons, 32 quarts or 64 pints.

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. Metrication in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   As such, the public is familiar with both metric and Imperial units, and may interchange measurements in conversation, for example: distance and body measurements. Adopting the metric system was discussed in Parliament as early as 1818 and some industries and government agencies had metricated, or were in the process of metricating by the mid ...

7. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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   The conversion between different SI units for one and the same physical quantity is always through a power of ten. This is why the SI (and metric systems more generally) are called decimal systems of measurement units. [10] The grouping formed by a prefix symbol attached to a unit symbol (e.g. ' km ', ' cm ') constitutes a new inseparable unit ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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. ...