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Anglicize
verb · 78% connection
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Bar
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
C. G. S.
unknown · 78% connection
An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Decalitre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Decametre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Decastere
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Decilitre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Decimetre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Decistere
noun · 78% connection
The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Dyne
noun · 78% connection
The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Erg
noun · 78% connection
The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Faculty
noun · 78% connection
Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…
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Farad
noun · 78% connection
The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Firkin
noun · 78% connection
A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
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Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Gramme
noun · 78% connection
The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
Hectolitre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…
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Hectostere
noun · 78% connection
A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, capacity, metric, system, containing.
