单词	metricate
释义	metricate /ˈmɛtrɪkeɪt / verb [with object] Convert to a metric system of measurement: when copper pipe was metricated, the method of measuring it changed... Napoleon Bonaparte started to metricate the world in the early 1800s. Two hundred years later, the US still has problems in following the rest of the world. Everything from cough mixture to nail varnish is already metricated in the city's pharmacies. Imagine - the European Commission might want to harmonise uniforms and cap badges, or even metricate them. Derivatives metrication /mɛtrɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ... We're sitting less than 12 months away from a General Election and any party that declared support for metrication would take a pounding. It would do no harm to allow metric on pedestrian distance signs and would pave the way for the ultimate objective of full metrication of traffic signs. The UK government committed to introduce metrication over a 10-year period 40 years ago but has yet to introduce kilometres on our roads.
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