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The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and
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See moreThe Weights and Measures Act of 1824 was initially scheduled to go into effect on 1 May 1825. The Weights and Measures Act of 1825 pushed back the date to 1 January 1826. The 1824 Act allowed the continued use of pre
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See moreThe imperial system is one of many systems of English units. Most of the units are defined in more than one system, and some subsidiary units
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See more• Appendices B and C of NIST Handbook 44
• Thompson, A.; Taylor, Barry N. (5 October 2010). "The NIST guide for the use of the international system of units". NIST. Archived from...
See moreThe 1824 Act of Parliament defined the yard and pound by reference to the prototype standards, and it also defined the values of certain physical constants, to make provision for re-creation of the standards if they were to be damaged. For the yard, the length of a
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Since the Weights and Measures Act 1985, British law defines base imperial units in terms of their metric...
See more1. ^ Britannica Educational Publishing (2010). The Britannica Guide to Numbers and Measurement. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-61530-218-5.
2. ^ Chaney, Henry James...
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The International System of Units, known by the international abbreviation SI in all languages: 125 : iii and sometimes pleonastically as the SI system, is the modern form: 117 of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of …