metric system

短语

n. 公制, 十进制

发音

US /ˈmɛtɹɪk ˌsɪstəm/

别名

metric

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.

    国际公制

    公制

    米制

  2. 2.

    The modern version of that system, Système International d'Unités (International System of Units), or SI that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.

    see Appendix on SI Units

  3. 3.

    Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.

词汇关系

名词

下位词 4

si CGS international system SI unit

词源

Compound of metric + system, from French métrique. See also meter.

来源：wiktionary