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Definition of International System
1. Noun. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela). "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"
Generic synonyms: Metric System
Lexicographical Neighbors of International System
Literary usage of International System
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823, as by Walter Alison Phillips (1920)
"... NATIONS Criticism of pacifist proposals before the war—Danger of an international
system to national liberties—The principle of intervention—President ..."
2. The United Nations System: The Policies of Member States by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene Martin Lyons, John E. Trent (1995)
"This connection between the United Nations and the international system within
which it operates is essential to understanding Algeria's globalist approach ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"THE METRIC OR International System. The metric system of weights and measures
was devised as an international system. The fact that it was first adopted by ..."
4. Europe: Dimensions of Peace by Björn Hettne (1988)
"The international system is not yet 'ripe' for such a change, ... Transformations in
the international system In the late 1960s a major process of ..."
5. The Theory of National and International Bibliography: With Special by Francis Bunbury Fitzgerald, Campbell (1896)
"... a Territorial Catalogue (not existing) in order to show how great is the loss
resulting from want of an International system of Bibliographical Record. ..."
6. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"In a second paper on the subject* M. Richert takes up the use of the decimal
classification as an international system of classification. ..."
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