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n. The science and regulation of standards for the quantification of size, weight, temperature, etc.
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Weights and Measures is a 1997 album by Spirit of the West. It was their final album of new material for Warner Music Canada.
It was the band's first album following the departure of Linda McRae, to whom the final song "The Hammer and the Bell" is dedicated. It was also the band's most directly folk-influenced album in many years, as "Canadian Skye", "Rites of Man", "Circus" and "The Hammer and the Bell" are all arranged partly around traditional Celtic jigs and reels. This was once one of the band's trademarks, but one they had virtually abandoned on their 1990s albums.
The album was recorded in England at Presshouse studios owned by Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre. Barre appears on the album as a guest musician, along with Ric Sanders of Fairport Convention, Donald Shaw and Karen Matheson of Capercaillie, and Martin Bell from The Wonder Stuff.
For the album's supporting tour, Tobin Frank joined the band as a "special guest". He retained that billing for several years, but is now officially a member of the band.
Although the album was well received by critics, it was not widely promoted by the label, and sold poorly compared to the band's other 1990s efforts. It did not produce any hits for the band, although "Soldier's Boy" did receive limited airplay on Canadian radio.
Following this album, Spirit of the West were dropped from their record label. This was a common occurrence in the late 1990s for bands and artists who had solid, loyal fan bases but did not enjoy multiplatinum sales.
Like other such artists, Spirit of the West moved to an independent label for their subsequent albums. Warner released a greatest hits compilation by the band, Hit Parade, in 1999, but the band did not release an album of new material until Star Trails in 2004.
Weights and measures are units of measurement subject to governmental regulation, to ensure fairness and transparency.
Weights and Measures may also refer to:
- Various Weights and Measures Acts
- The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the international standards organisation and its subsidiary
- International Committee for Weights and Measures, the 18-member core group that meets every year and
- General Conference on Weights and Measures, a larger group that meets only every four to six years
- Weights and Measures (Spirit of the West album), 1997
- Weights & Measures (Hyland album), 2011
Usage examples of "weights and measures".
A desire to lessen the number of its imperfections induced me still to withhold it awhile, till, on the 15th of June, came to my hands, from Paris, a printed copy of a proposition made by the Bishop of Autun, to the National Assembly of France, on the subject of weights and measures.
I could get away with designing a system of weights and measures because there were so many of them that one more didn't make much difference.
The well-known proportion of weights and measures (see Bishop Hooper's elaborate Inquiry,) the specific gravity of water and silver, and the value of that metal, will afford, after a short process, the annual revenue which I have stated.
At first simple things that look completely innocuous, like uniform weights and measures, rationalized mathematically.
One is a book made and bound by Lincoln himself, in which he had written the table of weights and measures, and the sums to be worked out therefrom.
I knew what they held: maps, names, places, reports and summaries, laws and customs, biographies and artists' sketches, heights and distances, history, geography, even weights and measures - all that years of intelligence and espionage had gathered about the Punjab, to be digested and returned.
The inspectors from the Bureau of Weights and Measures had not been quite satisfied with his weights.
An excellent example are those standing for various weights and measures.
I reasoned that each culture had to have a different class-structure, a different mythology, a different theology, different costumes, different, forms of address, different national character, and even different coinage and slightly different weights and measures.
It was accepted by the Commission and is deposited in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Sè.
The matter of weights and measures was, for the moment, abandoned.