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(from yocto to yotta)
Yocto, Zepto, atto, Femto, Pico, Nano, Micro, mili, Centi, Deci, 1, Deca, Hecto, Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, Zetta, Yotta.
(Starting from the smallest which is Yocto)
Other metric prefixes that are very very very unknown to people:
Kibi- 210
Mebi- 220
Gibi- 230
Tebi- 240
Pebi- 250
exbi- 260
Zebi- 270
Yobi- 280
Omni- 101000
Centili- 10600 or 10303
Googol- 10100
Asankhyeya- 10140
Lako- 105
ribo- 104
myri- 10-4
Mini- 10-4 (duplicated)
Yi- 10-5
tini- 10-5 (duplicated)
angstro- 10-10
And maybe future Prefixes
Hella- 10^27
And unofficial prefixes:
Bronto- 1015 to 1027
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What are all prefixes for selfish?
Their are no prefixes for selfish
Can prefixes change the part of speech of a root word?
In some languages, yes. But not in English. All English grammatical inflections (not that there are very many of them and most of them are -s) are suffixes. Prefixes are used to change the meaning of the word not as grammatical indicators. In Swahili, on the other hand, all grammatical inflections are prefixes. Swahili does not use suffixes.
What is the suffix of the oxyanion?
There's no suffix in this word. The affix is -ion. All the other parts of this word are prefixes.
What are some prefixes for duct?
pro= product de= deduct sorry.... those are all I can think of right now.
What words can be made from vital by prefixes and suffixes?
vitalized, invital, all you have to do is add a ed to the end or a in to the begining or any suffix or prefixx you want
What is metric height?
All distances are measured in metres. Prefixes are used to indicate multiples or fractions of a metre.
Is there a way to easily memorize all of the metric prefixes?
For the basic prefices you could try the mnemonic: King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk for Kilo, Hecto, Deka, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli. Base stands for metre, gram, litre etc, the basic unit. There are other variations. This only goes from 103 to 10-3 in multiples of 1/10. There are others that go from Yotta (1024) to the Base in steps of 10-3, and from the base to Yocto (10-24) but these are rather more difficult to remember, partly because of the letters involved and partly because the same letters occur in both sequences - much in the same way that deka and deci do above.
Why do people consider the metric system easier to use than US system?
The metric system uses conversion factors of 10 for all units. Instead of remembering all the different conversions between each unit (4quarts=1gallon, 5280feet=1mile, ect), you only have to memorize a couple of prefixes. The (common) metric prefixes are Milli=1000th Centi=100th Deci=10th Deka=x10 Hecto=x100 Kilo=x1000
How do you measure land miles in metric system?
You don't, miles are not a unit in the metric system. All distances are measured in metres. Prefixes are used for multiples or fractions of a metre. Distances that used to be measured in miles would, today, be measured in kilometres.
What is the metric unit that is used to measure an objects mass?
The base unit of mass is the kilogram, all masses are measured in kilograms All other prefixes are fractions or multiples of kilograms, but they are still kilograms.
What are all prefixes for selfish?
Their are no prefixes for selfish
When you use a metric system to measure liquids?
Volumes are measured in cubic metres. Because the unit is cubed the normal system of prefixes can become confusing, so it is common to use the older, non SI, unit litre. a cubic metre is 1000 litres. The normal prefixes apply to litres.
What is the prefix for the 10000 's place in the metric system?
There is none but sometimes you may find "myriad".The SI system discourages all prefixes that are not thousand multipliers or dividers. However certain prefixes are so historically entrenched that they will not vanish soon. Some examples of 'unsupported' prefixes are: centimeter (hundredth) decimeter (tenth) decathelon (ten) hectoliter (hundred)
Does the U.S.A. use the metric system to tell time?
The metric system isn't used for day to day time measurement. The point of the metric, or SI, system is that it is a universal standard, the normal 24 hour clock is already the established universal system. Within the SI system the base unit of time is the second, all the normal prefixes apply, but since multiples of seconds are generally quoted in minutes and hours, the prefixes are mainly used with fractions of a second; milliseconds, nanoseconds etc.
How the decimal place-value positions are related to metric prefixes?
milli- = 0.001 centi = 0.01 deci- = 0.1 All these are from Latin. deka- = 10.0 hekta- = 100.0 kilo- = 1000.0 These are from Greek.
Why do you use prefixes?
Prefixes are used in language to modify the meaning of a word. By attaching a prefix to a root word, we can create new words with different meanings. This allows us to be more specific in our communication and convey nuanced information.
Give three advantages of the metric system over the English system of measurement?
One advantage is that it is based on 10 making it easy to move the decimal place over and when rounding. Another advantage is the that the rest of the world uses it so that we can all communicate in the language of the metric system. And lastly it has 3 units and prefixes so you just add the prefix necessary for the measurement you are looking at. The prefixes are kilo, hecto, deka, base units,deci,centi, and milli.
