2. The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the metric system; metrication. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Metrification — Métrification La métrification est l opération par laquelle un pays, ou tout autre entité sociale, effectue une transition de son système d unités de mesures vers le Système international d unités. De nombreuses unités de mesure ont été utilisées … Wikipédia en Français
Métrification — Conversion au système métrique dans le monde par année. La métrification est l opération par laquelle un pays, ou tout autre entité sociale, effectue une transition de son système d unités de mesures vers le Système international d unités. De… … Wikipédia en Français
metrification — /me treuh fi kay sheuhn/, n. 1. metrication. 2. poetic composition in meter or verse form. [METR(IC)1 or METR(IC)2 + I + FICATION] * * * … Universalium
metrification — met·ri·fi·ca·tion … English syllables
métrification — n.f. Adoption du système métrique … Le dictionnaire des mots absents des autres dictionnaires
metrification — noun 1. writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) • Derivationally related forms: ↑metrify • Hypernyms: ↑writing, ↑authorship, ↑composition, ↑penning 2. the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to… … Useful english dictionary
metrication — met ri*ca tion (m[e^]t r[i^]*k[=a] sh[u^]n), n. The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the {metric system}; metrification; as, Great Britain has completed its metrification, but the United States… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Metrication in India — Metrication or metrification is the process of converting to the metric system based on the International System of Units (SI). India s conversion to the metric system occurred in stages between 1955 and 1962. The metric system in weights and… … Wikipedia
Silva (Spanish strophe) — Silva, in Spanish poetry, a strophe, laisse (Sp. tirada) consisting of in eleven and seven syllable lines: hendecasyllables ( endecasílabos ) and heptasyllables ( heptasílabos ), the majority of which are rhymed although there is no fixed order… … Wikipedia
Bill Domm — William Henry (Bill) Domm (July 24 1930 January 8 2000) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1993. He was best known for his crusades against the metric system and in favour of capital punishment… … Wikipedia
