Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment

Metric System

A system of units used in scientific work throughout the world and employed in general commercial transactions and engineering applications. Its units of length, time, and mass are the meter, second, and kilogram respectively, or decimal multiples and submultiples thereof. ( McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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A system of units used in scientific work throughout the world and employed in general commercial transactions and engineering applications. Its units of length, time, and mass are the meter, second, and kilogram respectively, or decimal multiples and submultiples thereof. ( McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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  • Metric Systems
  • System, Metric
  • Systems, Metric

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Indexed with the subheadings history, instrumentation, standards.

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  1. E05.978.539w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Metric System. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008792. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008792
  2. Metric System. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
  3. Metric System. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232405