Quantitative Concept
metric system
met·ric sys·tem
Subclass of:
Weights and Measures
Definitions related to metric system:
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A system of units used in scientific work throughout the world and employed in general commercial transactions and engineering applications. Its units of length, time, and mass are the meter, second, and kilogram respectively, or decimal multiples and submultiples thereof. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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An international decimal system of weights and measures, in which the basic units are the meter for length, the gram for weight, and the liter for volume. The metric system units have to satisfy three conditions: one fundamental unit is defined for each quantity; multiples and fractions of fundamental units are created by adding prefixes (denoting powers of ten) to the names of the defined units; the fundamental units are defined rationally and are related to each other in a rational fashion. The metric system evolved into the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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