Metric System
the system adopt ed by the French convention in 1799, in which all measures of length, area, capacity, and weight are based on the length of a quadrant of the meridian measured between the equator and the pole. The ten-millionth part of this quadrantal arc was adopted to be the linear measuring unit, which they called ficial and solid measures, taking for the unit of the former the square of the cube of the tenth part of the meter. A meter is 1.09362311 yards or 39.370432 inches, the standard meter being taken yard, as correct at 16 2-3° C. (See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.) At the same time there was also chosen for the measuring unit of weight the quantity of METTERNICH Africa 1907-1909 and in 1911 was made cube at a certain temperature. It was also decided that the multiples and subwhether of weight, capacity, surface, or multiples of each kind of measure, length, shall be always taken in the most simple, natural, and easy for calcumost simple, natural, and easy for calculation. The meter is the basis of calcuthe are, 1 square dekameter; of capacity, lation; from it are derived: Of area: the gramme, 1 cubic centimeter of water. the liter, 1 cubic decimeter; of weight:
The names of the graduations below the above the unit are formed from the Latin, and Greek.