1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 176 Métrologie, s.f. metrology; the name given to the new republican system of weights and measures lately established throughout France.

1811 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Nov. in Writings (1984) 1254 In the names of the subdivisions I have followed the metrology of the ordinance of Congress of 1786.

1821 J. Q. Adams Rep. Weights & Meas. 85 The French metrology.

1868 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 31 387 A very able paper on uniform metrology for India.

1879 Scribner's Monthly July 409/1 A system of the simplest kind was prepared for the common use of the whole world; and to avoid offending local prejudices, it was not connected with any existing metrology.

1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 710 The fallacy of his notion of a duodecimal system being suitable for adoption..in international metrology in general.

1934 D. Davidson (title) The hidden truth in myth and ritual and in the common culture pattern of ancient metrology.

1978 Current Anthropol. 19 594/1 MacKie traces the affinities of the megalithic units of measurement to Sumerian, Indus, and Egyptian metrologies.

1980 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 40 612 German weights and measures of the late medieval and early modern periods were far more complex and diverse than contemporary metrologies in England and France.

1816 P. Kelly (title) Metrology; or an exposition of weights and measures.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. iv. 425 M. Boeckh's recent publication on Metrology.

1878 Nature 23 May 110/2 Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie read a paper on inductive metrology, the purpose of which..is to deduce the units of measure employed by ancient peoples from the dimensions of existing remains.

1925 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 11 359 Measures of light, or of energy generally, are among the most difficult and unreliable in the whole field of metrology.

1969 Physics Bull. Sept. 365/2 A large proportion of conference participants deprecated the term ‘measurement science’ and the use of the term ‘metrology’ appeared to have a large measure of support.

1993 R. J. Pond Introd. Engin. Technol. (ed. 2) v. 107 A metrology laboratory provides transfer standards or primary standards for each base unit listed above.

1889 A. Sidgwick in Jrnl. Educ. Feb. 116/2 The mere branches of study are appalling. The languages as before. Critical knowledge of texts...Metrology, the science of metres...Philology—a science so new that [etc.].