 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 564 pages
...determined with the greatest care by the measurement of an arc of the meridian. MEASURES OF LENGTH. 417. The Meter is the unit of length. It is the ten-millionth...the poles, and equals 39.37 inches, or 3.28 feet. The standard meter is a bar of platinum deposited in the archives of Paris. TABLE—10 millimeters... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 444 pages
...(gram.) VALUE, Dollar. MEASURE OF LENGTH. 79O. The Meter is the unit of length. It is the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the poles,...feet. TABLE. 10 millimeters (mm.) equal 1 centimeter, cm. 10 centimeters " 1 decimeter, dm. 10 decimeters " 1 meter, M. 10 meters " 1 decameter, DM. 10 decameters... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 528 pages
...determined with the greatest care by the measurement of an arc of the meridian. MEASUEES OF LENGTH. 417. The Meter is the unit of length. It is the ten-millionth...distance from the equator to the poles, and equals 39. 37 inches, or 3.28 feet. The standard meter is a bar of platinum deposited in the archives of Paris.... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1877 - 496 pages
...scale, and has for its base an invariable unit derived from nature, and called a METRE. 120. The Metre is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, and is the unit of linear measure. 121. The Are (air) is a square whose side is ten metres. It... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1889 - 482 pages
...(gram.) VALCE, Dollar. MEASURE OF LENGTH. 79O. The Meter is the unit of length. It is the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the poles, and equals 39.37 inches, or 3.28 feet. em. dm. M. DM. HM. KM. TABLE. 10 millimeters (mm.) equal 1 centimeter, 10 centimeters " 1 decimeter,... | |
 | Wilshire S. Courtney - Agriculture - 1878 - 590 pages
...nature, and called a METRE; and upon this unit all the units of weight and measure are based. The Metre is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole ; and is the principal unit of linealmeasure. The Are is a square whose side is ten metres. It... | |
 | Samuel Mecutchen - Arithmetic - 1880 - 288 pages
...height of Mt. Blanc and that of 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... | |
 | Samuel Mecutchen - Arithmetic - 1880 - 262 pages
...height of Mt. Blanc and that of 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... | |
 | Joseph Hughes (F.R.G.S.) - 1882 - 114 pages
...order these matters otherwise. They have been scientific, and have stuck to their science. The metre is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the Equator to the Pole, and, as that distance is not likely to alter, there is no primary need for the establishment... | |
 | Lucius Elmer Sayre - 1894 - 240 pages
...of weights and measures. In that system the meter is the standard unit of linear measure. This meter is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the poles, which is the basis of the whole system. The cube upon the one-tenth of the meter (decimeter) is the... | |
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The entire metric system of weights and measures is based upon a fundamental nnit called a meter, which is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, and is the principal unit of linear measure. 
