What is "metrication"

metrication \met`ri*ca"tion\ (m[e^]t`r[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the metric system; metrification; as, Great Britain has completed its metrification, but the United States still resists complete change.

n. conversion to the use of the metric system; metrification

n. the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds [syn: metrification]

Metrication or metrification is conversion to the metric system of units of measurement. Worldwide, there has been a long process of independent conversions of countries from various local and traditional systems, beginning in France during the 1790s and spreading widely over the following two centuries, but the metric system has not been fully adopted in all countries and sectors.