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  2. Metrication in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom, through voluntary and mandated laws, has metricated most of government, industry, commerce, and scientific research to the metric system; however, the previous measurement system (Imperial units) is still used in society. Imperial units as of 2024 remain mandated by law to still be used without metric units for speed and ...

  3. Weights and Measures Acts (UK) - Wikipedia

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    Where these units also had a standard, legally defined definition, such as given in a weights and measures act, this was known as the statute measure. [5] So a land area might be given as 24 acres—statute measure, to clarify that it was the acre defined in statute, rather than a customary acre of a different size, that was being used. [5]

  4. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  5. Fahrenheit - Wikipedia

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    There is also an exact conversion between Celsius and Fahrenheit scales making use of the correspondence −40 °F ≘ −40 °C. Again, f is the numeric value in degrees Fahrenheit, and c the numeric value in degrees Celsius: f °F to c °C: c = ⁠ f + 40 / 1.8 ⁠ − 40; c °C to f °F: f = (c + 40) × 1.8 − 40

  6. Metrication - Wikipedia

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    In 1965, the UK began an official programme of metrication, and as of 2025, in the United Kingdom the metric is the official measurement system for all regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, however imperial pint remains the sole legal unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs.

  7. Why Do We Still Use Fahrenheit? - AOL

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    300 years ago scientist Daniel Fahrenheit invented a temperature measurement — donning his last name. Once Fahrenheit came up with the blueprint for the modern thermometer, using mercury — he ...

  8. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    This is often used by the American public media for the sizes of large buildings or parks. It is used both as a unit of length (100 yd or 91.4 m, the length of the playing field excluding goal areas) and as a unit of area (57,600 sq ft or 5,350 m 2), about 1.32 acres (0.53 ha).

  9. Why Americans Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius - AOL

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