NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The […] ...

But it gets even more confusing when some recipes use the metric system of liters and milliliters instead of our standard U.S. Imperial measurement system of teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups.

Units of one measure, such as length, increased by powers of ten (millimeters ... but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

All words are made up, after all, and the words for measurements are more made up than most. But these words didn't follow the precepts of the metric system, the official standard for demarcating ...

A radical initiative for its time, the Metre Convention ultimately birthed a system of measurement that would transcend language, politics and tradition, and lay the foundation for a new global era of ...

But the world's measurements were, frankly, a mess. France had introduced the metric system during its revolutionary years, but other nations were slow—or outright unwilling—to adopt it.

As far as I can recollect, the only time that the British reflexively use the metric system to describe a everyday measurement is when they are talking about the weather. In all other ...

Benoit, Fabry and Perot in connection with the interferential measurement of light waves. The results obtained confirm in a remarkable manner the value found by Michelson and Benoit in 1892-3 for ...

A nanometer (nm) is a unit of length in the metric system, defined as one billionth (10-9) of a meter (m). The meter is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), making the ...