UNITED STATES CUSTOMARY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Customary System mean? 

• UNITED STATES CUSTOMARY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES CUSTOMARY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES CUSTOMARY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES CUSTOMARY SYSTEM (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("United States Customary System" is a kind of...):

system of weights and measures (system of measurement for length and weight and duration)