H ave you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically ...

Units of one measure, such as length, increased by powers of ten (millimeters ... but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

The metric system is used to measure the length, mass or capacity of an object. Length is measured in millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), metres (m) or kilometres (km). Mass or ...

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NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.