METRICISE

metricize, metricise, metrify, metricate

(verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system

metricize, metricise

(verb) express in the metric system

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

metricise (third-person singular simple present metricises, present participle metricising, simple past and past participle metricised)

Alternative form of metricize

Anagrams

• misrecite

Source: Wiktionary



RESET




Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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