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METRICATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does metricate mean?
• METRICATE (verb)
The verb METRICATE has 1 sense:
1. convert from a non-metric to the metric system
Familiarity information: METRICATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they metricate ... he / she / it metricates
Past simple: metricated
Past participle: metricated
-ing form: metricating
... he / she / it metricates Past simple: metricated
Past participle: metricated
-ing form: metricating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Convert from a non-metric to the metric system
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
metricate; metricise; metricize; metrify
Hypernyms (to "metricate" is one way to...):
change over; convert (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
metrication (the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds)
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