English-French translations for metric system

  • système métriqueL'adoption du système métrique, par exemple, a permis une meilleure collaboration des divers agents économiques sur le continent puis dans le monde. The adoption of the metric system, for example, led to improved collaboration between the various economic operators on the continent and then globally. Personnellement, je préfère le système métrique, mais il existe certains domaines où la nature même du travail à effectuer nécessite l'utilisation du système impérial. Personally I prefer the metric system, but there are some areas where the very nature of the work being undertaken necessitates using imperial measurements. Si les écoles enseignent à présent le système métrique et si beaucoup ont grandi avec ces mesures, nombre d'autres continuent à utiliser le système impérial. Although schools now refer to a metric system and many have grown up with these measurements, the principle for many others to use imperial measurements remains.

Definition of metric system

  • The system of measurements developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide
  • Any variant of that system, that was not codified as SI, such as cgs

Examples

  • see Appendix on SI Units

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