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  2. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The current international standard for the metric system is the International System of Units (Système international d'unités or SI). It is a system in which all units can be expressed in terms of seven units. The units that serve as the SI base units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela.

  3. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    League - the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition) Orgyia - Ancient Greek fathom; Parasang - the distance an infantryman could march in a predefined period of time; Pygmē - distance from elbow to base of fingers; Sazhen - Russian fathom; Shaftment - width of the fist and outstretched thumb

  4. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. It is the only system of measurement with official status in nearly every country in the world, employed in science ...

  5. Outline of the metric system - Wikipedia

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    Gravitational metric system was a little-used variant of the metric system that normalised the acceleration due to gravity. Metre–tonne–second system of units was a variant of the metric system used in French and Russian industry between the First and Second World Wars. Between 1812 and 1839 France used a quasi-metric system: Mesures usuelles

  6. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, [ 1 ] metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century France and was rapidly adopted by scientists and engineers.

  7. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    The metric system is a system of measurement that standardizes a set of base units and a nomenclature for describing relatively large and small quantities via decimal-based multiplicative unit prefixes.

  8. Standard units - Wikipedia

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    The second meaning of standard unit refers to a unit of particular set of units of measurement called the standard system (versus the metric system). The standard system includes the standard units of the foot, the pound (mass), and the gallon. The United Kingdom and the United States both make, or have in the past made, use of the standard system.

  9. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    American surveyors use a decimal-based system of measurement devised by Edmund Gunter in 1620. The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4 rods, each of 16.5 ft or 100 links of 0.66 feet. A link is abbreviated "lk", and links "lks", in old deeds and land surveys done for the government.

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