SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does system of weights and measures mean? 

• SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (noun)
  The noun SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES has 1 sense:

1. system of measurement for length and weight and duration

  Familiarity information: SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

System of measurement for length and weight and duration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("system of weights and measures" is a kind of...):

metric; system of measurement (a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "system of weights and measures"):

British Imperial System; British system; English system (a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint)

metric system (a decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second)

United States Customary System (the system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint that dates back to colonial America but differs in some respects from the British Imperial System; today in the United States this system exists side by side with the SI system)

 Context examples 

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.

(Metric System, NCI Thesaurus)

The International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI) is a decimal system of weights and measures derived from and extending the metric system of units established through the Treaty of the Meter (Convention du Metre) signed in Paris in 1875 and currently signed by 48 nations including all the major industrialized countries.

(International System of Units, NCI Thesaurus)