 | William Frothingham Bradbury - 1882 - 416 pages
...decimeter (dm). 1 METER (ra). 1 dekameter 1 hektometer 1 kilometer (Dm)(Hra). (Km). I -J 3 — V 1 182. The standard unit of linear measure is the meter,...48 hundredths meters, or 37 meters 48 centimeters. 184. The names of the divisions of the unit are formed by prefixing to the unit of the table milli... | |
 | Samuel Mecutchen - Arithmetic - 1880 - 262 pages
...Mt. Everest, the latter being 8840 m. above the sea-level. 41. The meter is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the surface of the ocean ; find the earth's circumference in miles. 42. How many steres does a room contain... | |
 | Samuel Mecutchen - Arithmetic - 1880 - 270 pages
...Mt. Everest, the latter being 8840 m. above the sea-level. 41. The meter is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the surface of the ocean ; find the earth's circumference in miles. 42. How many steres does a room contain... | |
 | Norman Allison Calkins - Object-teaching - 1861 - 492 pages
...deka, hekto, kilo, myria; dm. for decimetre; Dm. for dekametre. Values of Metric Quantities.— A metre is one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, or nearly 40 inches. A litre is a cubic tenth metre (decimetre), and is about equal to our quart. A... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1882 - 398 pages
...How much sugar did he buy ? 10. If an average degree of latitude is 69/j>75 common miles, and a meter is one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on a meridian, what is the length of a meter in inches ? 431. 1. How many years, months, and days from... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - Arithmetic - 1897 - 370 pages
...ordinary business transactions. The standard of the metric system is the Meter, which was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface at the sea-level. The meter is 39.37+ inches in length, or it is a little longer than... | |
 | George Arthur Hoadley - Physics - 1900 - 476 pages
...advantage of the convenience of the decimal scale. To secure the first result the 10-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the meridian passing through Paris, was taken as the unit of length. Subsequent and more accurate measurements have... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1902 - 984 pages
...divided Into Ю.(мц).'НИ) equal parts, and this subdivision constituted the meter. Heuce a meter is one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, or one forty-millionth of the short circumference of the earth. So accurate were the first measurements,... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1903 - 1026 pages
...was divided Into 10.OOO.OOO equal parts, and this subdivision constituted the meter. Hence a meter Is one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, or one forty-millionth of the short circumference of the earth. So accurate were the first measurements,... | |
 | 1906 - 186 pages
...the Pharmacopoeia. III. The metric system has as its unit the meter, which is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the arc of the meridian. IV. -The unit of length is the meter. The unit of weight is the gram. The unit... | |
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In the metric system, the unit of length is the meter, which is one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. 
