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Metrification

Definition: Metrification

Metrification

Noun

1. The act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Metrification \Met`ri*fi*ca"tion\, noun. Composition in metrical form; versification.. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Metrification

Synonym: metrication (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Metrification

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Books

  • The slide rule, electronic hand calculator, and metrification in problem solving (reference)

  • Units and Conversion Charts: The Metrification Handbook for Engineers and Scientists (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Metrification

Language Translations for "metrification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

metrik sisteme çevirme (metrication), metreye çevirme (metrication). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Metrification

Misspellings

"Metrification" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: metisization, vetrification. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Metrification"

Words rhyming with "metrification" (pronounced 'Met`ri*fi*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Metrification

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-m-n-o-r-t-t"

-2 letters: interatomic, metafiction, metrication, reification.

-3 letters: antierotic, recitation.

-4 letters: anticrime, carnotite, cremation, criminate, firemanic, fornicate, imitation, initiator, intimater, intricate, iteration, manicotti, manticore, mortician, triatomic, tricotine.

-5 letters: amitotic, amniotic, amoretti, anoretic, antiriot, artifice, citation, coinmate, confetti, contrite, creation, fetation, fraction, friction, imitator, infector, initiate, interact, intercom, intermit, intimate, intromit, martinet, morainic, notifier, reaction, romantic, taconite, termitic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Metrification


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 74 72 69 66 69 63 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .    -    .-.    ..    ..-.    ..    -.-.    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100101 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0074 0072 0069 0066 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47718684757275696786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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