 The fundamental unit of the metric system is the METER — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (LITER) and of weight (GRAM) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply...  The Anderson Arithmetic - Page 272by Robert Franklin Anderson - 1924Full view - About this book
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - Metric system - 1906 - 28 pages
...the metric system is the METER — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (LITER) and of weight (GRAM) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related; eg, for all practical purposes one CUBIC DECIMETER equals one... | |
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - Metric system - 1906 - 64 pages
...the metric system is the METER — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (LITER) and of weight (GRAM) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related, eg, for all practical purposes one CUBIC DECIMETER equals one... | |
 | Charles H. Gleason - Arithmetic - 1910 - 536 pages
...the Metric System is the meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (liter) and of weight (gram) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related ; eg for all practical purposes one cubic decimeter equals one... | |
 | Statistics - 1911 - 930 pages
...the metric system is the meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (liter) and of weight (gram) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related — eg, for all practical purposes one cubic decimeter equals... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 978 pages
...METRE," which is the unit of length. From this unit the units of mass (gram), and capacity (litre), were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. Furthermore these three units are simply related so that for practical purposes one cubic decimetre... | |
 | Joseph Walker McSpadden - Periodicals - 1912 - 1164 pages
...the metric system is the meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (liter) and of weight (gram) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related, eg, for all practical purposes one cubic decimeter equals one... | |
 | Glenn Moody Hobbs - 1912 - 64 pages
...metric system is the meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity — liter — and of weight — gram — were derived. All other units...are the decimal sub-divisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related; eg, for all practical purposes one cubic decimeter equals one... | |
 | Valves - 1912 - 718 pages
...the metric system is the Meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (Liter) and of weight (Gram) were derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. These three units are simply related; for example, for all practical purposes one Cubic Decimeter equals... | |
 | Franklin Turner Jones, Robert Richardson Tatnall - Physics - 1912 - 112 pages
...is the meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (liter) and of mass (gram) are derived. All other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these three simply related units. For all practical purposes one cubic decimeter equals one liter, and one... | |
 | George Morris Philips, Robert Franklin Anderson - Arithmetic - 1913 - 394 pages
...The fundamental unit of the metric system is the meter — the unit of length. From this the units of capacity (liter) and weight (gram) were derived. All...the decimal subdivisions or multiples of these. The three unite named are simply related ; thus : A liter is a cube .1 of a meter on an edge. A grum is... | |
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