 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 σελίδες
...accurate copies of which are furnished the governments of all civilized countries. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 113. The principal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 σελίδες
...accurate copies of which are furnished the governments of all civilized countries. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 113. The principal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 σελίδες
...accurate copies of which are furnished the governments of all civilized countries. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 113. The principal... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - 1899 - 456 σελίδες
...easily think quantity in the units of this system without reference to the units of any other system. 319. All units in the metric system of measures and...LINEAR MEASURE. 10 millimeters (mm.) — 1 centimeter (cm.).* 10 centimeters = 1 decimeter (dm.). 10 decimeters = 1 meter (m.). 10 meters = 1 dekameter (Dm.).... | |
 | Joseph Henry Dunbar - 1902 - 404 σελίδες
...countries of Continental Europe. Its basis is the Meter, which equals 39.37 inches and was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. The use of this system was legalized in the United States in 1866. It is employed by writers... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - 1907 - 364 σελίδες
...value of 4000 marks in English money. /. Find the value of 8000 francs in United States METRIC SYSTEM All units in the metric system of measures and weights...means 10000 ; deci means tenth ; centi means hundredth ; miili means thousandth. Linear Measure 10 millimeters (mm.) = 1 centimeter (cm.). 10 centimeters... | |
 | Frederick Russell Gorton - 1911 - 540 σελίδες
...and measures. By this act the yard is denned as ff Jf of a meter. 2 The meter was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole. Accurate copies of the meter and other metric units are kept in the US Bureau of Standards... | |
 | C. W. Bender - 1912 - 358 σελίδες
...civilized nations except the English-speaking peoples. The meter is the base of the system, being (nearly) one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A gram is the weight of a cube of water at its greatest density, having an edge of .01 meter. A liter... | |
 | William Albert Noyes - 1918 - 636 σελίδες
...WEIGHT, VOLUME, TEMPERATURE, TIME AND ENERGY. Unit of Length. Meter. The meter was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole of the earth, measured on the surface. The measurements by means of which the first meter was prepared... | |
 | Edson Homer Taylor, Fiske Allen - 1919 - 244 σελίδες
...unit of length of the metric system. All other units are based upon the meter. The meter was computed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. It is about 39.37 inches. by Latin prefixes; multiples are expressed by Greek prefixes. LATIN Piuarms... | |
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Pupils must learn to think of quantity in metric units. 319. All units in the metric system of measures and weights are derived from the primary unit known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed... 
