Type of measuring system

Usage examples of metric.

We demand that one metric ton of ambrosia be made available to us immediately.

I buckled down to work on Metrification, devising a program that would convert American to the metric standard, no easy task.

It was like a line of verse anapestic tetrameter, or four metric feet, each foot consisting of three syllables, accented on the third.

It was like a line of verse Fanapestic tetrameter, or four metric feet, each foot consisting of three syllables, accented on the third.

It was the Olympic triathlon that he practised, with distances measured in metric lengths.

It was like a line of verse anapestic tetrameter, or four metric feet, each foot consisting of three syllables, accented on the third.

I know now that there is more in our philosophy than can be measured with a metric ruler or weighed in a coulomb balance.

Moebius cubes that had transported the ergs, the parked skimmer, the kitchen and laundry annexes next to the tower, part of the old chemistry building on the Endymion campus, several stone dwellings, precisely half of the bridge over the Pinion River, and a few million metric tons of rock and subsoil.

Manfred leans forward, one elbow on the table, one eye focused on innerspace as a hot-burning thread of consciousness barks psephological performance metrics at him, analyzing the game ahead.

Manfred leans forward, one elbow on the table, one eye focused on inner space as a hot-burning thread of consciousness barks psephological performance metrics at him, analysing the game ahead.

The metric system supplanted the old tzarist system for weights and measures.

Then City infuses each mess of quasi-cancerous tissue with a metric shitload of carrier capsids, which deliver the real cellular control mechanisms to their target bodies.

The stronger the material the less it needs to be tapered, but if we consider carbon-fiber epoxy resin composites, the strongest material we can currently build things with, the appropriate taper (about two and a half thousandths of a degree) for a cable just a millimeter in diameter at the ground produces a cable two kilometers in diameter at geosynchronous Earth orbit and massing sixty trillion metric tons.

The new brain layers, added by human genecrafters, let him regard each strand as a flaw in the quantum metric, left behind when the universe first cooled from an inflating superheated froth, congealing like a manylayered cake to form the varied levels of real and hyperspace.

Approximately fifteen metric tonnes mix of high explosives, armor-piercing kinetic projectiles and some small number of armor ablatives,” the Bolo said.