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- verb To express
physical quantities using themetric system - verb To
convert to the use of the metric system
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- verb convert from a non-metric to the metric system
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Examples
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Apparently the EU is going to metricate time "Britain will move to a system with 10 hours in a day and 100 units in an hour – doing away with the time old minute completely."
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Here is a link to ICESAT, a satellite launched by NASA in 2003 for no other purpose but to photograph and metricate ice thickness, cloud distribution, dimensions of holes in various atmospheric levels etc., to address global warming issues on an empirically driven basis.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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