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Definition of British imperial system
1. Noun. A system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint.
Generic synonyms: System Of Weights And Measures
Terms within: Avoirdupois Unit
Lexicographical Neighbors of British Imperial System
Literary usage of British imperial system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"1 pound =12 ounces = 5700 grains. 1 drachm = 3 scruples = 60 grains. 1 scruple =
20 grains. THE british imperial system.—The English weights and ..."
2. World Metric Standardization: An Urgent Issue; a Volume of Testimony Urging by World Metric Standardization Council (1922)
"Looked at from this point of view, it would appear that sooner or later Great
Britain must abandon the British Imperial system, because even its stoutest ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1876)
"The british imperial system of taxation now rests on so few points that there is
hardly one which could be suitably singled out for the purpose of being ..."
4. A suggestion for a British decimal currency, and decimal system of accounts by C. A. Manning (1867)
"Be that verdict what it may, the writer now concludes by offering THIS SUGGESTION
FOE A british imperial system OF CURRENCY AND ACCOUNTS to his ..."
5. Mining Tables: Being a Comparison of the Units of Weight, Measure, Currency by Frederick Henry Hatch, E. J. Vallentine (1907)
"VII. of 1886 assimilates the weights and measures of the colony to the British
Imperial System, with the exception of certain customary native weights, ..."
6. The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"There can be no denying that the British Imperial system is a system different
in its nature and size from a typical European state, from a state of the ..."
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