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	Qwika - SI
		The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name Système International d'Unités) is the modern form of the metric system.
		During the history of the metric system a number of variations have evolved and their use spread around the world replacing many traditional measurement systems.
		The swift worldwide adoption of the metric system as a tool of economy and everyday commerce was based mainly on the lack of customary systems in many countries to adequately describe some concepts, or as a result of an attempt to standardize the many regional variations in the customary system.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/SI (1659 words)

	SI - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name Système International d'Unités) is the modern form of the metric system.
		During the history of the metric system a number of variations have evolved and their use spread around the world replacing many traditional measurement systems.
		The swift worldwide adoption of the metric system as a tool of economy and everyday commerce was based mainly on the lack of customary systems in many countries to adequately describe some concepts, or as a result of an attempt to standardize the many regional variations in the customary system.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/SI (1703 words)

	Pound
		In the Imperial system (often referred to as the pound-inch system, or the English system in the United States) there are two basic pounds defined, and also an obsolete definition of one variant of the pound.
		In many countries that use the SI or metric system, the pound (or its translation, for example, the German Pfund, the French livre, the Dutch pond, the Spanish and Portuguese libras, or the Chinese jin) is used as an informal term for half of a Kilogram, therefore for this case the pound is 500 grams.
		But because the foot-pound-second systems are no longer used in science (and are gradually approaching extinction even in U.S. engineering work), many scientists today would be as bemused by this question as by the question of whether the Shekel is a unit of mass or of force.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/po/Pound.htm (1919 words)

	Systems of measurement Summary
		It must be understood by the modern reader, that historically, measurement systems were perfectly adequate within their own cultural milieu, and the understanding that a better more universal system (based on more rationale and fundamental units) only gradually spread with the maturation and appreciation of the rigor characteristic of Newtonian physics.
		Imperial units were mostly used in the British Commonwealth and the former British Empire.
		Atomic units (au) are a convenient system of units of measurement used in atomic physics, particularly for describing the properties of electrons.
	www.bookrags.com /Systems_of_measurement (2894 words)

	Qwika - similar:Conversion_of_units
		The U.S. system of units is similar to the Imperial system which was used officially in the United Kingdom until 1...
		The metric system is a system of units for measurement developed in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system.
		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 weight and the litre for capacity.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Conversion_of_units (1293 words)

	Imperial unit at AllExperts
		The Imperial units or the Imperial system is a collection of English units, first defined in the Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined (until 1959) and reduced.
		The Imperial gallon was based on the volume of 10 lb of distilled water weighed in air with brass weights with the barometer standing at 30 in and at a temperature of 62 Â°F.
		Imperial units were eliminated from all road signs, although both systems of measurement will still be found on privately-owned signs (such as the height warnings at the entrance of a multi-story parking facility).
	en.allexperts.com /e/i/im/imperial_unit.htm (1509 words)

	Metric system information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The metric system was first introduced in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system.
		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 capacity.
		The traditional system, originally Babylonian, has 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes of arc in a degree, and 60 seconds of arc in a minute (the clarifier "of arc" is dropped if it is clear from the context that we are not speaking of minutes and seconds of time).
	www.search.com /reference/Metric_system (2951 words)

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		A metrified Imperial system is a proposal for a metrication and unification of the English systems of measures.
		Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency relationships of all intervals are based on th...
		System 32 was an arcade platform released by Sega in the early 1990s.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/32.html (8108 words)

	[ content-available.be \| Metric System Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The metric view is a decimalised system of measurement based on the metre und the gram.
		The kilometre was first defined as the length of an arc spanning a decimal insignificant of latitude, a agnate elucidation to that of the nautical mile which was the length of an arc of particular (non-decimal) insignificant of latitude.
		Gravitational metric systems practice the kilogram-force (kilopond) as a abject detachment of force, with mass measured in a detachment proverbial as the hyl, TME, mug or metric slug.
	www.content-available.be /Metric_System (2942 words)

	Imperial unit - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Imperial units are an irregularly standardized system of units that have been used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the United States and Commonwealth countries.
		Even where "imperial" is used more broadly, in strict usage it should not be applied to English units that were outlawed in Weights and Measures Act of 1824 or earlier, or which had fallen out of use by that time, nor to post-imperial inventions such as the slug.
		From this we see that, in the Imperial system, an avoirdupois ounce of water at 62 °F has a volume of one fluid ounce, because 10 pounds is equivalent to 160 avoirdupois ounces, and 1 Imperial gallon is equivalent to 4 Imperial quarts, or 160 fluid ounces.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=15492 (1977 words)

	Metrified English unit Information
		One of the earliest still known and most extensive proposals of a metrified Imperial system is from the early 1820s and is attributed to William Huskisson, but it wasn't embodied into the 1824 reformation of the Imperial system at all.
		The revolutionary system was quite similar to the metric system, except the mentioned difference of about 5½ mm between the second pendulum at 45° and the 10,000th part of the distance from the northpole to the equator, which became the first definition of the metre.
		Besides redefinitions of the whole system, which try to keep the values close and the system immanent factors intact, there were and are simple approximations of Imperial units in metric.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Metrified_English_unit (1091 words)

	Metric System of Measurement -- SI
		SI is a specific canon of measurements derived and extended from the Metric system; however, not all metric units of measurement are accepted as SI units.
		The metric system tried to choose units which were non-arbitrary, while practical, merging well with the revolution's official ideology of "pure reason"; it was proposed as a considerable improvement over the inconsistent customary units which existed before, whose value often depended on the region.
		By 1799, a platinum cylinder was manufactured to serve as the standard for a kilogram, so no water-based standard ever served as the primary standard when the metric system was actually used anywhere.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/metric_system.htm (2266 words)

	Imperial unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The distinction between this imperial system and the U.S. customary units (also called standard or English units there) or older British/English units/systems and newer additions is often not drawn precisely.
		The Imperial gallon was based on the volume of 10 lb of distilled water weighed in air with brass weights with the barometer standing at 30 inHg and at a temperature of 62 °F.
		Britain has made some use of three different weight systems in the 19th and 20th century, troy weight, used for precious metals, avoirdupois weight, used for most other purposes, and apothecaries' weight, now virtually unused since the metric system is used for all scientific purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_system (1374 words)

	SI Information Center - si swimsuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is world's si joint biomechanics most widely used system of units, both in everyday commerce, and in science, being nearly universally used in some branches of science.
		During the history of the metric system a number 2003 honda si of variations have evolved and their use spread around crx si the world replacing many traditional measurement si swimsuit systems.
		Some of these systems were metric system variations whilst others were based journal of coastal research si 39 on the Imperial and American systems.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Chemistry_Topics_S/SI.html (1564 words)

	SI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The metric system was conceived by a group of scientists (among them, Lavoisier) which had been commissioned by king Louis XVI of France to create a unified and rational system of measures.
		A month after the coup of 18 Brumaire, the metric system was definitively adopted in France by the First Consul Bonaparte, (the later Napoleon I) on December 10, 1799.
		The worldwide adoption of the metric system as a tool of economy and everyday commerce was based to some extent on the lack of customary systems in many countries to adequately describe some concepts, or as a result of an attempt to standardize the many regional variations in the customary system.
	en.explicatus.org /wiki/SI (1786 words)

	SI - Definition, explanation
		The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French phrase, Système International d'Unités) is the most widely used system of units.
		It is the most common system for everyday commerce in the world, and is almost universally used in the realm of science.
		Scientists, chiefly in France, had been advocating and discussing a decimal system of measurement based on natural units at least since 1640, but the first official adoption of such a system was after the French Revolution of 1789.
	calsky.astroinfo.ch /lexikon/en/txt/s/si/si.php (2757 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.dictionary-of-meaning.com ◄:::
		The SI was developed in 1960 from the metre-kilogram-second (MKS) system, rather than the centimetre gram second system of unitscentimetre-gram-second (CGS) system, which, in turn, had many variants.
		Metric system in the United StatesIn the United States, industrial use of SI is increasing, but popular use is still limited.
		Some of these systems were metric system variations whilst others were based on the Imperial and US customary units systems.
	www.dictionary-of-meaning.com /SI.html (1968 words)

	Pound (mass) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the Imperial and U.S. customary systems there are two basic pounds defined, and also an obsolete definition of one variant of the pound.
		But because the foot-pound-second (fps) systems are no longer used in science (and are gradually approaching extinction even in U.S. engineering work), many scientists today would be as bemused by this question as by the question of whether the shekel is a unit of mass or of force.
		Although the U.S. National Bureau of Standards [2] has defined the pound as a unit of mass, and the pound-force as a unit of force, this distinction is not widely recognized among working physicists, because the fps system has not been used in physics, even in the United States, since the early 20th century.
	www.dictionpedia.com /en/Lbs (2026 words)

	Pound - Atkinspedia
		Template:Fn It is part of the avoirdupois system of mass units.
		Over time, the various keepers of the standards redefined pounds in terms of the metric system (which has happened in case of the avoirdupois and troy pounds as well as the metric pounds), they were defined in terms of the kilogram, not the dyne or the newton.
		There are three practical ways of doing calculations with mass and force in the foot-pound-second (fps) systems (and other systems such as inch-pound-second systems not discussed here), which the following table summarizes and compares with the SI.
	www.atkinsalltheway.com /wiki/index.php/Pound (1735 words)

	Metrified Imperial system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metrified_Imperial_system (188 words)

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		Not sure what the difference is between an Imperial mile and an American mile but assuming they are the same and you filled with Imperial gallons (that would be about 1.201 American gallons) the percentage difference times your 59.4 miles per Imperial gallon would work out closer to 49.5 American miles per gallon..
		Imperial gallon is 4.54 litres, or in imperial measure 4 quarts to a gallon, each quart at 40 oz, as comparede to a US quart at 32 oz.
		Futher yet the imperial unit called a gallon is 25% bigger than the unit galled a gallon in the U.S. Confused yet, keep them all in metric and the Imperial gallon is 4.54 litres where as the U.S. gallon is 3.8 litres.
	www.goldwingfacts.com /forums/forum1/9440.html (1518 words)

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		During WWII Federal inches and SAE thread forms did not interchange with Imperial inches and the various British thread forms, of which there were several.
		The metric system is a very nice thing - the United States was the first country outside of France to adopt it, back in the 1800s.
		So practically everyone, including the most rabid metrified countries, did pretty much their own thing, which is why you can have a box of 14mm nuts and bolts from various sources, none of which will thread onto any other.
	www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca /gnttype/199512/70 (626 words)

	New Statesman - All alone with feet and inches
		Partly because of that, in 1866 Congress deemed the so-called "English" weights-and-measures system to be on an equal legal footing with the French metric one; as long ago as 1893, metric measurements were then adopted as the official standard for the US.
		The 1975 act that Gerald Ford signed into existence was "to co-ordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the United States".
		Most Americans believe they invented the jury system, to say nothing of democracy itself: and so it is with pounds, tons, gallons, yards, miles and so on.
	www.newstatesman.com /199907120014 (1059 words)

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