metric system

Etymology
Compound of, from. See also.

Noun

 * 1) The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.
 * 2) The modern version of that system,  (International System of Units), or SI that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.
 * see Appendix on SI Units
 * 1) Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.

Translations

 * Catalan: sistema mètric
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 國際公制,
 * Finnish: metrijärjestelmä
 * French:
 * Georgian: მეტრული სისტემა
 * German: metrisches System
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: metrala sistemo
 * Irish: córas méadrach
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese: sistema métrico
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: метри́ческая систе́ма
 * Spanish: sistema métrico
 * Thai: ระบบเมตริก
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: system fedrig