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    measurement and moderation[citation needed]. The use of the word metre (for the French unit mètre) in English began at least as early as 1797. Galileo discovered...
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    internationale du mètre". www.bipm.org. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2019. "BIPM – la définition du mètre". www.bipm...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up metre, mètre, métré, or -mètre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meter or metre is a unit of measurement of length...
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    The Astronomer's Dream, or the Man in the Moon (French: La Lune à un mètre, literally "The Moon from One Meter Off") is an 1898 French silent trick film...
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  • base units metre, second and kilopond respectively. Internationally used abbreviations of the system are MKpS, MKfS or MKS (from French mètre–kilogramme-poids–seconde...
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    poids absolu d'un volume d'eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre, et à la température de la glace fondante. "The 7 April 1795 Act: gramme"...
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    Pérot (1907): "Nouvelle Détermination du mètre en longueurs d'ondes lumineuses" (= "A new determination of the metre in terms of the wavelength of light")...
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    poids absolu d'un volume d'eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre, et à la température de la glace fondante. English translation: "Gramme:...
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    adoption of the metre, the shortcomings of the mètre des Archives as a standard became ever more apparent. Countries which adopted the metre as a legal measure...
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    In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats. Unlike rhythm...
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    les éditions officielles du Louvre, vol. 6 (2nd ed. 1834), p. 70. The metre (mètre) on which this definition depends was itself defined as the ten-millionth...
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    The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-meter (109.36 yd)...
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  • 500 metres up to two miles (3218.688 metres). The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may...
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    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...
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    The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight...
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  • = 3⁄4 sesep = 30 L Metric system has been compulsory with the name muoi mètre for meter. Metric system has been compulsory with the following names: 1...
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    The square metre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the unit...
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  • 2022. On 20 May 1875 an international treaty known as the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) was signed by 17 states. This treaty established an international...
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    The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics...
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    Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used...
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  • The official world records in the 5000 metres, or 5000-metre run, are held by Joshua Cheptegei with 12:35.36 for men and Gudaf Tsegay with 14:00.21 for...
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  • L'histoire du mètre [The History of the Metre] (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2015-10-12 – via histoire.du.metre.free.fr....
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  • is homeomorphic. One of the first widely recognized metrization theorems was Urysohn's metrization theorem. This states that every Hausdorff second-countable...
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  • [I don't care about decimal divisions] Denis Février. "Un historique du mètre" (in French). Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie. Retrieved...
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    Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-second corresponds to a one-newton force...
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  • their derivation: for example, the square metre (m2), the SI derived unit of area; and the kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m3 or kg⋅m−3), the SI derived unit...
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  • In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in...
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    Look up cubic metre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The cubic metre (in Commonwealth English and international spelling as used by the International...
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  • The metre per second squared is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI). As a derived unit, it is composed from the SI base...
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    157: 161–180. doi:10.1098/rstl.1867.0010. S2CID 109333769. "Histoire du mètre". Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE). Retrieved 27 December 2017....
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