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How to pronounce metrification in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms metrication
Type of change
Type Words
Type of authorship, composition, penning, writing
Derivation metrify

Examples of metrification

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And on the other hand, as I understand it, some things in the UK are not in the process of metrification.
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The process is sometimes called metrification.
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Even in the cold areas of Canada, broadcast media began to switch to the newer method of reporting after metrification.
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Metrification redirects to the article.
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He was still typing at 90 words a minute on a 1908 typewriter in the computer age, and was still holding out against metrification when he died.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The decimal system, which has already conquered the coinage and led to the metrification of measures of weight and distance, suits the modern world better.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)
  • The act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds
  • (metrify) compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely"
  • (metrify) metricize: convert from a non-metric to the metric system
  • Metrication refers to the introduction and use of the SI metric system, the international standard for physical measurements. This has involved a long process of independent and systematic conversions of countries from various local systems of weights and measures. ...