DeCS

Descriptor English:

Metric System

Descriptor Spanish:

Sistema Métrico

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor

sistema métrico

Scope note:

Sistema de medidas que se utiliza en los trabajos científicos en todo el mundo y se emplea también en las transacciones comerciales en general y en aplicaciones de ingeniería. Sus unidades de longitud, tiempo y masa son, respectivamente, el metro, el segundo y el kilogramo, o sus múltiplos y submúltiplos. (Traducción libre del original: McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Sistema Métrico

Descriptor French:

Système métrique

Entry term(s):

Metric Systems
System, Metric
Systems, Metric

Tree number(s):

E05.978.539

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008792

Scope note:

A system of units used in scientific work throughout the world and employed in general commercial transactions and engineering applications. Its units of length, time, and mass are the meter, second, and kilogram respectively, or decimal multiples and submultiples thereof. ( McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

Allowable Qualifiers:

HI history
IS instrumentation
ST standards

Public MeSH Note:

History Note:

DeCS ID:

8982

Unique ID:

D008792

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1974/01/01

Date of Entry:

1999/01/01

Revision Date:

2009/07/06

ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT

Investigative Techniques [E05]

Investigative Techniques

Weights and Measures [E05.978]

Weights and Measures

Calibration [E05.978.155]

Calibration

International System of Units [E05.978.507]

International System of Units

Metric System [E05.978.539]

Metric System

Quartz Crystal Microbalance Techniques [E05.978.673]

Quartz Crystal Microbalance Techniques

Reference Standards [E05.978.808]

Reference Standards

Reference Values [E05.978.810]

Reference Values

Metric System - Preferred

Concept UI	M0013689
Scope note	A system of units used in scientific work throughout the world and employed in general commercial transactions and engineering applications. Its units of length, time, and mass are the meter, second, and kilogram respectively, or decimal multiples and submultiples thereof. ( McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
Preferred term	Metric System
Entry term(s)	Metric Systems System, Metric Systems, Metric

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