 The entire metric system of weights and measures is based upon a fundamental nnit called a meter, which is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, and is the principal unit of linear measure.  Practical arithmetic - Σελίδα 33των John Purdue Bidlake - 1866 - 212 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John William Hopkins - 1907 - 376 σελίδες
...the meter is the basis of the system. The meter is the standard unit of linear measure. Its length is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole measured on the meridian of Paris. Its length in this country is 39.37 inches. In the United... | |
 | George Arthur Hoadley - 1908 - 476 σελίδες
...convenience of the decimal scale. To secure the first result, they took for the meter, or unit of length, the tenmillionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the meridian passing through Paris. Subsequent and more accurate measurements have shown... | |
 | 1912 - 718 σελίδες
...many years of observations and scientific measurements, on the meter, which is supposed to represent the tenmillionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole. This calculation, of course, may not be absolutely correct, but it does not alter the perfection of... | |
 | John William Hopkins, Patrick Healy Underwood - 1912 - 406 σελίδες
...the meter is the basis of the system. The meter is the standard unit of linear measure. Its length is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole measured on the meridian of Paris. Its length in this country is 39.37 inches. In the United... | |
 | George Arthur Hoadley - 1913 - 554 σελίδες
...convenience of the decimal scale. To secure the first result, they took for the meter, or unit of length, the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the meridian passing through Paris. Subsequent and more accurate measurements have shown... | |
 | Anna Caroline Maxwell, Amy Elizabeth Pope - 1914 - 938 σελίδες
...still optional. The meter is the unit of length, the gram of weight, and the liter of volume. A meter is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole. A gram represents the weight of a cube of water at its greatest density (ie 4° C.) each... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1921 - 632 σελίδες
...measures and weights based upon the metre (see Decimal Syriern), they settled that this basis was to be the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole. Degree Dekker which distance had to be found by accurate measurement. Ten degrees of latitude were... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures - 1922 - 630 σελίδες
...universal use long ago. They, however, took as the length of the meter the theoretical value of the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the Equator to the Pole, and after esablishing this figure, found an error in the calculation, so that now we haven't even this... | |
 | 1922 - 452 σελίδες
...universal use long ago. They, however, took as the length of the meter the theoretical value of the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the Equator to the Pole, and after esablishing this figure, found an error in the calculation, so that now we haven't even this... | |
 | Frank Manning Adams - 1924 - 192 σελίδες
...System — The system of weights and measures of which the meter is the foundation of measure, being one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole; and the grain of weight being one cubic centimeter of water; and the liter of capacity being one cubic... | |
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