 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 1878 - 906 pages
...tho same as the French, or З'.^Д American inches, the standard of linear measure intended to be the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as as550 certained by actual measurement of an arc of the meridian. The centimetre is onehundredth... | |
 | Microscopy - 1878 - 598 pages
...French, or metric system, determines (theoretically) the length of the standard by declaring it to be the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole. PracticaUv. however, the standard is the distance Ыtween the ends of a certain bar, and tins... | |
 | George Anthony Hill - Geometry - 1880 - 348 pages
...which those used by the people must agree. . 2. The founders of the metric system denned the meter as one ten-millionth part of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. Extraordinary efforts were made to construct a platinum bar which should have this exact value. An... | |
 | Joseph Ficklin - Arithmetic - 1881 - 112 pages
...it is 10 dollars ; the dime, a dec'i-dollar, since it is ^ of a dollar, etc. MEASURES OF EXTENSION". The Me'ter, which is the' standard unit of length,...surface of the earth, and is 39.37079 in., or 1.09yd. +. The Metric, and some of the other tables of measures may be omitted in.primary classes, at the option... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1882 - 446 pages
...length, and from which all other units of the system are derived. The meter is, approximately, the tenmillionth part of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. Defined by law, it is the distance at 0° C. between two lines engraved on a platinum bar kept in the... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1883 - 368 pages
...it. It is the length of a bar of metal kept at Paris as a standard. The meter was intended to be the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but subsequent measurements of this quadrant show that its length is a little more than ten million... | |
 | G. Eugène-Fasnacht - French language - 1884 - 196 pages
...toile d'araignée, cobweb. 5 It need hardly be said that i metre^ = 39J inches English measure. t The ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole. Quarante-troisième Leçon. 1. Il ne faut pas tout croire. 2. Il faut travailler pour (s')acquérir... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1885 - 568 pages
...increasing quantities are expressed by the following preflxet : The unit measure of length, called mtter, 16 the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole. The unit measure of distance, called kilometer, is 1,000 meters. The unit measure of surface,... | |
 | United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - 1886 - 136 pages
...25 25 1 1 Metric Srmlem. The unit of the Metric System of Weights and Measures, is the Meter, or the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole measured on an arc of the meridian; and all other measures of length, surface, capacity, and weight are designated... | |
 | Samuel Edward Warren - Geometrical drawing - 1887 - 200 pages
...States, is derived from the length of a pendulum beating seconds at London. Second, the French meter is the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to one of the poles of the earth, and is equal to 3.2809 English feet, or 39.3708 English inches. Thence... | |
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Meter (as the new unit was named) was therefore defined to be the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, measured along the sea level, on the meridian passing through Paris. 
