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	Bureau International des Poids et Mesures - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, international standards organization that maintains worldwide uniformity of measurements in line with SI...
		The joule was adopted as the unit of the various forms of energy and of heat by the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM; French,...
		Bureau International des Poids et Mesures < body, standard > (BIPM) The standards body that ensures world-wide uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Bureau_International_des_Poids_et_Mesures.html (245 words)

	General Conference on Weights and Measures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the English name of the Conférence générale des poids et mesures (CGPM, never GCWM).
		As of 2005, the number of associates has grown to 17.
		(1889) - kilogram defined as mass of the international prototype kilogram (IPK) made of platinum-iridium and kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures), Sèvres, France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conference_Generale_des_Poids_et_Mesures (462 words)

	Metre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the 1870s and in light of modern precision, a series of international conferences were held to devise new metric standards.
		The Treaty of the Metre (1875) mandated the establishment of a permanent International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) to be located in Sèvres, France.
		However, the International Prototype Metre remained the standard until 1960, when the eleventh General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM: Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures) defined the metre in the new SI system as equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Meter (701 words)

	Measurement
		The 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1983 defined the meter as that distance that makes the speed of light in a vacuum equal to exactly 299 792 458 meters per second.
		The speed of light in a vacuum, c, is one of the fundamental constants of nature.
		In 1967 the General Conference on Weights and Measures defined the temperature of the triple point of water (the temperature at which water exists simultaneously in the gaseous, liquid, and solid states) to be exactly 273.16 kelvins.
	www.geocities.com /dtmcbride/tech/measurement.html (1354 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: CIPM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The International Committee for Weights and Measures is the English name of the ComitÃ© international des poids et mesures (CIPM, sometimes written in English ComitÃ© International des Poids et Mesures).
		Its principal task is to ensure world-wide uniformity in units of measurement and it does this by direct action or by submitting proposals to the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, ConfÃ©rence gÃ©nÃ©rale des poids et mesures).
		The CIPM meets annually at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, Bureau international des poids et mesures), and discusses reports presented to it by its Consultative Committees.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=CIPM (187 words)

	NPL Time Metrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Its definition was adopted by the 13th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures in 1967, and is defined as: The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
		A definition of TAI was approved by the Comite International des Poids et Mesures in 1970, and recognised by the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures in 1971.
		TAI was established by the Bureau International de l’Heure as a time reference co-ordinate, and was calculated on the basis of the readings of atomic clocks operating in various establishments in accordance with the definition of the second.
	www.npl.co.uk /time/world_time_system.html (1245 words)

	symmetry - September 2006 - Deconstruction: Particle Pocket Card
		Rather than continually choosing more stable transitions, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesuresdecided to fix c, thereby shifting any uncertainty in its value to the definition of a meter.
		At the Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures, the speed of light was defined as exactly 299,792,498 meters per second.
		Conference delegates also redefined the SI unit of the meter, without changing its value, based on this set quantity.
	www.symmetrymag.org /cms/?pid=1000380 (807 words)

	Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures : CGPM
		Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures : CGPM
		terms defined : Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures : CGPM
		But if the man merely dies of sickness, it's all right.
	www.termsdefined.net /cg/cgpm.html (533 words)

	LENGTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1983, at the time of the adoption of the present definition of the metre by the 17th Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures, the Comite International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM) drew up recommendations for the practical realization of the definition.
		Poids et Mesures, 1960, 28, 71-72 and BIPM Comptes Rendus 11th Conf.
		Poids et Mesures, 1963, 52, 26-27), with the indicated values for the wavelengths and the corresponding uncertainties.
	indykfi.atomki.hu /kisfiz/MT/length.htm (1371 words)

	The Time
		Before even the ephemeris second was defined, the second (not “SI” because this is before SI) was defined as the fraction 1/86400 of the mean solar day (this is, after all, the historical definition of the second, the day being divided in 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds each).
		TAI is maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures which periodically averages various atomic clocks around the world to compute TAI, and publishes the offsets of the various clocks to TAI (the master clock of the Observatoire de Paris is used to centralize the offset computation).
		It is kept in a vault at the the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sèvres, France.
	www.madore.org /~david/misc/time.html (3957 words)

	BIPM - Resolution 6 of the 18th CGPM
		Procedure for a State or Economy to become an Associate of the General Conference
		The 18th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures,
		instructs the Comité International des Poids et Mesures to recommend, as soon as it considers it possible, a value for each of these quotients together with a date for them to be put into practice simultaneously in all countries; these values should be announced at least one year in advance and would be adopted on
	www.bipm.org /jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=18&RES=6 (346 words)

	Conférence générale des poids et mesures - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conférence générale des poids et mesures - the free encyclopedia
		The Conférence générale des poids et mesures (GeneralConference on Weights and Measures or CGPM) is one of thethree organizations established to maintain the SI system under the terms of the MetreConvention (1875).
		In 2002 theCGPM represented 51 member states and ten further associate members
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=CGPM (285 words)

	General Conference on Weights and Measures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Acronym, CGPM, from the French, Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures.
		The conference is held at least every six years, and often every four.
		The conference elects the 18 members of the CIPM, and also makes major decisions concerning the operation of the BIPM.
	www.sizes.com /units/cgpm.htm (94 words)

	SI Metric System
		n 1960 the Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM), which is the international authority on the metric system, accepted a universal, practical system of units and gave it the name Le Systeme International d'Unites with the abbreviation SI.
		Since then this most modern and simplest form of the metric system was introduced throughout the world and by 1970's more than 20 countries, including established metric countries, passed legislation adopting the SI system as their only legal system with numerous countries following their example.
		The kilogram is the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram recognised by the CGPM and in the custody of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Sevres, France.
	website.lineone.net /~cspsweb/sibasis.htm (543 words)

	IAU(1991) Recommendations on Reference Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The basis of the measurement of time on the Earth is International Atomic Time (TAI) which is made available by the dissemination of corrections to be added to the readings of national time scales and clocks.
		The time scale TAI was defined by the 59th session of the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (1970) and approved by the 14th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (1971) as a realized time scale.
		As the errors in the realization of TAI are not always negligible, it has been found necessary to define an ideal form of TAI, apart from the 32.184s offset, now designated Terrestrial Time, TT.
	hpiers.obspm.fr /webiers/general/syframes/convent/UAI_4.html (740 words)

	IEC - IEC in action > SI zone
		The International System of Units, or SI (from its French name Système international d'unités) is a system of metric weights and measures that was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM or Conférence générale des poids et mesures) in 1960.
		The SI is maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM or Bureau International des poids et mesures) and may be updated by the CGPM.
		Although the IEC is the organization that provided the international forum for the relevant discussions to take place, many other organizations have been involved in the development and the maintenance of the SI system.
	www.iec.ch /zone/si/si_entry.htm (120 words)

	International Bureau of Weights and Measures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(Redirected from Bureau International des Poids et Mesures)
		It is based at the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres, France, where it enjoys extraterritorial status.
		the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, Conférence générale des poids et mesures)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bureau_International_des_Poids_et_Mesures (197 words)

	Technical Barriers to Trade Inventory - Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The objectives of the Convention du Metre are achieved through the authority it vests in the Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM), the Comite International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM), and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM).
		Canada is a signatory to the Convention du Metre of 1875, the formal basis for measurement upon which all other international activities in practical metrology are based.
		The objectives of the Convention du Metre are achieved through the authority it vests in the Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM), the Comite Internationale des Poids et Mesures (CIPM), and the Bureau Internationale des Poids et Mesures (BIPM).
	www.sice.oas.org /cp_tbt/english/tbt_5c.asp (906 words)

	MODERNISM : ARTISTS : Jonathon KEAT
		More specifically, the standard meter is 1/10,000,000 of the quarter-meridian, redefined by the Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
		Keats has proposed is an approach as rigorously mathematical as the metric system, that will prioritize the individual rather than the planet.
		At Modernism Gallery, individuals will be invited to commission customized conversion tables, as well as engraved brass meter rods and clocks that beat at their heart rate.
	www.modernisminc.com /artists/Jonathon_KEATS (1062 words)

	Historical and international aspects of the SI
		The SI was established in 1960 by the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures).
		The CGPM is the international authority that ensures wide dissemination of the SI and modifies the SI as necessary to reflect the latest advances in science and technology.
		The Consultative Committee for Units (CCU, Comité Consultatif des Unités), which was set up in 1964 and which replaced the Commission for the System of Units set up by the CIPM in 1954, advises the CIPM on matters dealing with the SI.
	physics.nist.gov /cuu/Units/international.html (702 words)

	Worlds in a grain of silicon
		They can increasingly deal with the fine grain of the world - including things, like climate, that brook no generalisation.
		Some go so far as to call this "the new science of complexity".
		Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures in 1990.
	www.poptel.org.uk /nuj/mike/hpc/index.html (7793 words)

	History of Croatian Science
		His theory of tides is described in De modo collegiandi, pronosticandi et curandi febres, nec non de humana felicitate ac denique de fluxu et refluxu maris, Venice 1528.
		Juraj Dragisic (Georgius Benignus), Franciscan born in the famous Bosnian town Srebrenica, suggested a reform of the Julian calendar to Pope Leon X in 1514 in his study Correctio erroris, which was accepted by the Pope Gregory XIII.
		Count Edgar Bourée de Corberon (1807-1861) was descendant of an old French noble family (born in Troissereux, dpt.
	www.croatianhistory.net /etf/et22.html (11596 words)

	NPL:
		The name Système International d'Unités (International System of Units) with the international abbreviation SI was adopted by the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) in 1960.
		The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.
		The unit 'degree Celsius' is equal to the unit 'kelvin', and a temperature interval or a difference of temperature may also be expressed in degrees Celsius.
	www.htl-steyr.ac.at /~morg/htl/MSRT/SI_UNI~1.HTM (705 words)

	General Conference on Weights and Measures - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the English name of the Conférence générale des poids et mesures (CGPM, sometimes written in English Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures).
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		Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Imtc), 1999 IEEE: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Sponsor(S
	www.unipedia.info /CGPM.html (651 words)

	Acronyms, CGPM, CIPM, & BIPM
		The Convention also established the CIPM and BIPM; for additional information, see the section International aspects of the SI.
		It has the responsibility of ensuring that the SI is widely disseminated and modifying it as necessary so that it reflects the latest advances in science and technology.
		International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures).
	physics.nist.gov /cuu/Units/acronyms.html (190 words)

	BIPM - CGPM
		Procedure for a State or Economy to become an Associate of the General Conference
		The General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, CGPM) is made up of representatives of the governments of the Member States and observers from the Associates of the CGPM.
		The CGPM currently meets in Paris once every four years; the 22nd CGPM was held in October 2003, and the 23rd CGPM will be held in October 2007.
	www1.bipm.org /en/convention/cgpm (218 words)

	Easy Life - Automation at your service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The SI international system of units is a coherent system which has been adopted and recommended by the highest deciding body of the Meter Convention, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conférence générale des poids et mesures, CGPM).
		The typical error for a standard model Cs atomic clock is about 1 microsecond per year, in other words, one whole second in a million years, if the clocks would run that long.
		Today, there are about 230 of these kinds of clocks maintaining the coordinated universal time (UTC) by synchronizing their own time to a common, weighted average, which is calculated in Paris (Le Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM).
	www.heureka.fi /exhibitions/easylife/b15a.html (1640 words)

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