The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May...

générale des poids et mesures – CGPM), which was established by the Metre Convention of 1875, brought together many international organisations to establish...

of reference in 1901. This was also the result of the Metre Convention of 1875, when the metre was adopted as an international scientific unit of length...

Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) was established by the Metre Convention. This has evolved into the International System of Units (SI) as a...

international measurement unit by the Metre Convention of 1875 at the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution. The Mètre des Archives and its copies such...

intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the Metre Convention through which member states act together on matters related to measurement...

of unusual units of measurement#Volume Orders of magnitude (volume) Metre Convention Physical quantity SI Units - Volume at nist.gov. Retrieved 29 June...

International Metre Commission, which met in Paris in 1870 and again in 1872 with the participation of about thirty countries. The Metre Convention was signed...

of its maximum density, which is approximately 4 °C. 1875–1889: The Metre Convention was signed in 1875, leading to the production of the International...

standard kilogram. Effective 20 May 2019, the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention, the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole are now defined by setting...

the SI symbol for gram-metre) or "Gm" (the SI symbol for gigametre). The word gramme was adopted by the French National Convention in its 1795 decree revising...

The BIPM was created on 20 May 1875, following the signing of the Metre Convention, a treaty among 17 Member States (as of November 2018[update] there...

several times since the Metre Convention in 1875, and new additions of base units have occurred. Since the redefinition of the metre in 1960, the kilogram...

geodetic standard at the General Conference held in Paris in 1875. The Metre Convention was signed in 1875 in Paris and the International Bureau of Weights...

ampere and ohm. After the Metre Convention of 1875, work started on international prototypes for the kilogram and the metre, which were formally sanctioned...

of the artefact's fabrication and distributed to signatories of the Metre Convention serve as de facto standards of mass in those countries. Additional...

officially came into force on 20 May 2019, the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention. The kelvin is often used as a measure of the colour temperature of...

System of Units. The date is the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. Metrology is the study of measurement. The World Metrology...

countries. On 20 May 1875, an international treaty known as the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) was signed by 17 states. This treaty established the following...

including the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the Metre Convention, APEC, and international pageants. "Chinese Taipei" is a deliberately...

is the system of units that has been officially endorsed under the Metre Convention since 1960. Child articles are: SI base unit SI derived unit Non-SI...

particular caesium resonance was agreed upon by 17 major nations at the Metre Convention in Paris in 1875 and remains to the present time as the official definition...

established in 1875 by the Metre Convention, overseeing the International System of Units (SI). For example, the metre was redefined in 1983 by the...

to the Gregorian calendar of 20 May 1875 as the date the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) was signed in Paris (the explicit reference date was removed...

doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b01912. PMID 31479264. Gupta, S. V. (2010). "Metre Convention and Evolution of Base Units". Units of Measurement. Springer Series...

the Convention of the Metre. In 1960, the two countries agreed to common definitions of the yard and the pound based on definitions of the metre and the...

twenty national delegations to a convention in Paris that resulted in seventeen of the nations signing the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875, and the establishment...

Convention and Exhibition Centre in the 2015/16 State Budget. This project commenced in May 2016 and opened on 1 July 2018. The 20,000-square-metre expansion...

occur in 2025. May 20 – The 150th anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention will be celebrated, which established the BIPM, one of the first International...

the Republic of Ireland (1937/49). The Irish Free State joined the Metre Convention in 1925. In 1980 the European Union asked all of its member states...