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    measurement and moderation[citation needed]. The use of the word metre (for the French unit mètre) in English began at least as early as 1797. Galileo discovered...
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    "BIPM - Commission internationale du mètre". www.bipm.org. Retrieved 13 November 2019. "BIPM – la définition du mètre". www.bipm.org. Archived from the original...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up metre, mètre, métré, or -mètre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meter or metre is a unit of measurement of length...
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    The Astronomer's Dream, or the Man in the Moon (French: La Lune à un mètre, literally "The Moon from One Meter Off") is an 1898 French silent trick film...
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  • base units metre, second and kilopond respectively. Internationally used abbreviations of the system are MKpS, MKfS or MKS (from French mètre–kilogramme-poids–seconde...
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    poids absolu d'un volume d'eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre, et à la température de la glace fondante. "The 7 April 1795 Act: gramme"...
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    poids absolu d'un volume d'eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre , et à la température de la glace fondante. English translation: "Gramme:...
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  • Alfred; « Nouvelle Détermination du mètre en longueurs d'ondes lumineuses » ["A New Determination of the Metre in Terms of the Wave-length of Light"]...
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    adoption of the metre, the shortcomings of the mètre des Archives as a standard became ever more apparent. Countries which adopted the metre as a legal measure...
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    les éditions officielles du Louvre, vol. 6 (2nd ed. 1834), p. 70. The metre (mètre) on which this definition depends was itself defined as the ten-millionth...
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