weights and measures

     

The efinition, agreement and practical use of units of measurement have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to this day. Disparate systems of measurement used to be very common. Now there is a global standard, the International System (SI) of units, the modern form of the metric system. The SI has been or is in the process of being adopted throughout the world. In trade, weights and measures is often a subject of governmental regulation, to ensure fairness and transparency. The Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM) is tasked with ensuring worldwide uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI). Metrology is the science for developing national and internationally accepted units of weights and measures.

Tweets about weights and measures

  • @HKap90 @RichardDawkins @GernBlanston6 As far as I'm aware UK is migrating to decimalisation in most weights and measures (not distance) (1)
  • The master kilogram is in Paris, but not in France (The Bureau of Weights and Measures is in international territory). #physicsed
  • Weights and measures may have a thing to say about this
  • RT @MeredithMBell: "Neutrality consists in having the same weights and measures for each." - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • " #Neutrality consists in having the same weights and measures for each." - Napoleon Bonaparte RT @MeredithMBell
  • "Neutrality consists in having the same weights and measures for each." - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • RT @rjgrune: "Grace is irrational in the sense that it has nothing to do with weights and measures." - Paul Zahl
  • "Grace is irrational in the sense that it has nothing to do with weights and measures." - Paul Zahl
  • Constitution: Congress is empowered to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and fix the standard of weights and measures. #tcot
  • Laws and Bare Acts of India: Section 18 - The Standards of Weights and Measures Act,1976
  • Weights and measures of bug bites, part the first: One bite on the Piggy That Stayed Home is equal to or greater than one dozen arm bites.
  • Watching @stroudauctions this morning online, fascinating selection of scales, weights and measures in today's sale.
  • RT @williBradowens: Random: in the electrical code book, weights and measures, a barrel of mead is a 'farquart' @danthawildman @outiar @zim…
  • Random: in the electrical code book, weights and measures, a barrel of mead is a 'farquart' @danthawildman @outiar @zimobog
  • Ye gods, I hate kitchen weights and measures. US/UK versions of everything, everything is an exception. #turo
  • Elijah Farmer, a founding member of OKCBC, now serves as Master of Letters, Weights, and Measures. An Oklahoma...