Metric System

The metric system of measurement is internationally recognized and is the standard for measurements within the scientific community .

It is internationally recognized and used the world over. It is also easier and more intuitive in that it is based on divisions and multiples of ten.

It is Newtons per metre.

Time and temperature are quantities to be measured. The SI units for time and temperature are the second and the kelvin, respectively.

One example of a different shape symmetric system is the CGS system, which stands for centimeter-gram-second. In this system, the fundamental units are the centimeter for length, the gram for mass, and the second for time. Another example is the MKS system, which stands for meter-kilogram-second, where the fundamental units are the meter for length, the kilogram for mass, and the second for time.

In the metric system basic units are multiplied or divided by 10 to get larger and smaller units

There are about 1.968 kilometers in 1.23 miles

depends where you live. Excluding US, Burma and Liberia, rest of the world uses the metric system.

There is no pt in the metric system. In the Imperial system, it stands for pint.

Units for Frequency are Hertz (Hz)

Hertz is also known as s-1 (1/seconds)

There is no distance component (meters) in frequency, only a "time" component

A ruler or tape measure.

France. They like to call it System Internationale d'Units. Ironically, it was the United States, the only major country NOT using the Metric System, which first proposed it, or something very like it. Apparently we got distracted by something and the French grabbed the ball and ran with it, so to speak.

A door is about 2 meters, but most likely you'd measure in centimeters.

1. It is an international standard, so everybody uses the same measurements. 2. Because it uses prefixes with powers of ten, conversions are much simpler. For example, to convert 7 kilometers to meters, you just add 3 zeroes.

Pico (symbol p) is a prefix in the metric system denoting one trillionth.

The metric system is a system of measurement based on the metre and the gram. It exists in several minor variations, with different choices of base units (CGS, MKS, etc), though these do not affect its day-to-day use. Over the last two centuries, different variants have been considered the metric system. Since the 1960s the International System of Units (SI, Systeme International) is the internationally recognised standard metric system. Metric units are widely used around the world for both everyday and scientific purposes. One goal of the metric system is to have a single unit for any physical quantity. All lengths and distances, for example, are measured in metres, or thousandths of a metre (millimetres), or thousands of metres (kilometres), and so on. There is no profusion of different units with different conversion factors, such as inches, feet, yards, fathoms, rods, chains, furlongs, miles, nautical miles, leagues, etc. Multiples and submultiples are related to the fundamental unit by factors of powers of ten, so that one can convert by simply moving the decimal place: 1.234 metres is 1234 millimetres, 0.001234 kilometres, etc. The use of fractions, such as 2/5 of a metre, is not prohibited, but uncommon. Time, on the other hand, has not been metricated in everyday use: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, with non-decimal conversion factors, are used. The second and its submultiples, (e.g. microsecond), are used in scientific work, but the traditional units of time are more often used than decimal multiples of a second. The original metric system was intended to be used with the units of time of the French Republican Calendar, but these fell into disuse along with the calendar. In the late 18th century, Louis XVI of France charged a group to develop a unified, natural and universal system of measurement to replace the disparate systems then in use. This group, which included such notables as Lavoisier, produced the metric system, which was then adopted by the revolutionary government of France. In the early metric system there were several fundamental or base units, the grad or grade for angles, the metre for length, the gram for mass and the litre for volume. These were derived from each other via the properties of natural objects, mainly the Earth and water: 1 metre was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th of the geographic-pole- to-equator distance, and 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram and equals 1 square decimetre. (1000 cubic centimetres - cc) Other units were derived from this, such as the Celsius temperature scale, where water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C at standard pressure.

Conversion started in 1970, and is still ongoing. Many of the older units are still being used.

A4 is 210 mm by 297 mm.

The base unit of mass is the kilogram.

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None, a micrometre is a measure of distance, a gram is a measure of mass. There is no conversion between the two.

It uses both. The Bahamas are officially metric, but many road signs are in miles.

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.

There are several.

They are the Metre, Gramme, Second, and I think the Volt, Ampere and Coulomb but I stand to be corrected. Where does the Joule come into things?

A ton is a measure of mass. A cubic metre is a measure of volume. The two measure different things and,according to basic principles of dimensional analysis, conversion from one to the other is not valid.

If you are not convinced, consider a cubic metre of air. How many tons? Next consider a cubic metre of lead. How many tons?

There are 10 milliliters per centiliter.