Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The making of verses; a metrical composition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Composition in metrical form; versification.
- noun The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the metric system; metrication.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Composition inmetrical form;versification .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds
- noun writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)
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Examples
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Both roundabouts and metrification will help you understand the British sense of humour.
Important Notice! ksp24 2008
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It seems that there is some good news emerging from the EU that the Commissioner for Industry has said that in 2009 there won't be forced metrification in the UK.
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If we have a little look at Hansard from the 11th April 1989 we can see that it was none other than the current Conservative Party Chairman St Francis of Maastricht who brought in yet more measures about metrification.
A weighty issue 2007
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It seems that there is some good news emerging from the EU that the Commissioner for Industry has said that in 2009 there won't be forced metrification in the UK.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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We want the reversal of metrification of everything else!
Eight for 2008 2007
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If we have a little look at Hansard from the 11th April 1989 we can see that it was none other than the current Conservative Party Chairman St Francis of Maastricht who brought in yet more measures about metrification.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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And he wanted to know what the PM thought about calls for metrification of road signs in the UK?
Archive 2006-02-01 Garry 2006
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And he wanted to know what the PM thought about calls for metrification of road signs in the UK?
Brainbox Garry 2006
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But believe it or not, there is such a thing as The UK Metric Association, which campaigns for total metrification of the UK.
Archive 2006-02-01 Serf 2006
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As, naturally, would be the creeping advance of metrification.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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