Metrication or metrification is the act or process of converting to the metric system of measurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned...

The Metrication Board was a non-departmental public body that existed in the United Kingdom to promote and co-ordinate metrication within the country....

Metrication is the act or process of converting to the metric system of measurement. The United Kingdom, through voluntary and mandated laws, has metricated...

Metrication in Australia effectively began in 1966 with the conversion to decimal currency under the auspices of the Decimal Currency Board. The conversion...

The spread of metrication around the world in the last two centuries has been met with both support and opposition.[where?] The United States of America...

Metrication in Canada began in 1970 and ceased in 1985. While Canada has converted to the metric system for many purposes, there is still significant...

Metrication (or metrification) is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace...

kg) depending on the location and objects weighed. With the advent of metrication, Europe's various "stones" were superseded by or adapted to the kilogram...

Metrication in Barbados Metrication in Canada Metrication in Chile Metrication in Guatemala Metrication in Hong Kong Metrication in India Metrication...

government of Brian Mulroney was elected. There was heavy opposition to metrication and as a compromise the government maintains legal definitions for and...

The Metrication Ordinance (Chinese: 十進制條例; Jyutping: sap6 zeon3 zai3 tiu4 lai6) was enacted in 1976 in Hong Kong. The law allowed a gradual replacement...

Metrication, or the conversion to a measurement system based on the International System of Units (SI), occurred in India in stages between 1955 and 1962...

Metrication in the Republic of Ireland happened mostly in the 20th century and was officially completed in 2005, with a few exceptions. The island of...

New Zealand started metrication in 1969 with the establishment of the Metric Advisory Board (MAB) and completed metrication on 14 December 1976. Until...

universal phenomenon in Europe between the decline of the Roman Empire and metrication. This was connected with international commerce, especially with the...

Measurements Law in June 1951 that reaffirmed its intention to continue Japan's metrication, effective on the first day of 1959. An unofficial and ad hoc Metric...

In Guatemala the metric system is official but it [clarification needed] uses a mixture of U.S., metric and Spanish customary units. In May 1910 most of...

Peru adopted the metric system in 1862, replacing Spanish customary units. In 1862, the Peruvian government decreed the metric system to be official in...

1964 and—after metric conversion of the land registries—the pyeong. The metrication was not applied to imported or exported goods and remained so generally...

Measures Act 1985 (Metrication) (Amendment) Order 1994 HM Government, 1995 "Explanatory memorandum to The weights and measures (metrication amendments) regulations...

A variety of units of measurement were used in the various independent Italian states and Italian dependencies of foreign empires up to the unification...

legally authorised metric measure on 28 July 1866. Some steps towards US metrication have been made, particularly the redefinition of basic US and imperial...

A Metrication Committee poster in Sheung Wan...

(grande) ('large jar/jug').[citation needed] In the British and Irish metrication processes, the pint was replaced by metric units as the legally defined...

Chile adopted the metric system in 1848. Previously, the Spanish system of measures was used. Since colonization, Chile had always used a unit system based...

Units (SI) as the country's official system of measurement. Examples of metrication in Myanmar include weather forecasts by the Department of Meteorology...

English-speaking countries with a relatively recent history of metrication (or only partial metrication), such as Britain. The length of the pitch, or field, for...

(1997). Cunningham, Peter (ed.). The Basis of Measurement – Volume 2 – Metrication and Current Practice. Picton. ISBN 0-948251-84-0. "Kilometre". Oxford...

international standards body. Adopting the metric system is known as metrication. The historical evolution of metric systems has resulted in the recognition...

Finnish units of measurement), or 600 syli (Swedish fathoms, 1.781 m). Metrication replaced virsta with the kilometre in the 1880s. Raymond H Fisher, The...