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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 ...
There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara , the cordel , the league and the labor . The units of area used to express the area of land are still encountered in some transactions in land today.
A number of units were used. One vara (lit. "pole", "yard") was equal to 0.838 m (32.99 inches) as it was legally defined also use inches and feet. [1] Some other units and legal equivalents are given below:
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.
In addition imperial units may be used exclusively where a product is sold by description, rather than by weight/mass/volume: e.g. television screen and clothing sizes tend to be given in inches only, but a piece of material priced per inch would be unlawful unless the metric price was also shown.
The metric ton is the name used for the tonne (1000 kg, 2 204.622 62 lb), which is 1.58% less than the long ton and is 10.23% more than the short ton. The US customary system also includes the kip , equivalent to 1,000 pounds of force, which is also occasionally used as a unit of weight of 1,000 pounds (usually in engineering contexts).
The following are common exceptions in metric countries such as Australia: McDonald's sells its Quarter Pounder with cheese as "Cuarto de Libra con Queso", which translates from Spanish as "Quarter Pound with Cheese". Aviation (altitude and flight level) is still sometimes measured in feet.
The same is true in the UK, where some use metric, some imperial, some think different measurements in different systems. JtdIrL 21:37 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC) There is better than this already: Dublin is 48 km from Navan.-- Tarquin 22:08 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)