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metricate, v.|ˈmɛtrɪkeɪt|
[Back-formation from next: see -ate3.]
a. intr. To change to or adopt the metric system of weights and measures.
1965[see metrication]. 1968Guardian 27 July 3 It may not be practicable to metricate, except possibly over a far longer period than that suggested. 1970Daily Tel. 14 May 18 Current Admiralty Tide Tables, now beginning to metricate in earnest, propose to use decimetres. 1972B.S.I. News June 17/2 Did it not take..nearly a century for Britain to decide to metricate?
b. trans. To convert or adapt to the metric system.
1970Times 28 Oct. 7 The cost of metricating road signs..would eventually have to be considered. 1972Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 19/3 The Royal Navy..started to metricate Admiralty charts in 1970.
Hence ˈmetricated ppl. a., made or sold in accordance with metric measurements; converted to or using the metric system.
1970Daily Tel. 14 May 18 Your metricated cook cannot have, standing alongside the kitchen scales, a set of SI weights... There will be no SI weights. Ibid. 1 Dec. 3/2 When clothes are fully metricated, at least two things will still be recognisable in the old shapes, brassieres and shoes. 1971Timber Trades Jrnl. 14 Aug. 54/3 This is the second season of metricated wood and the system is now accepted as normal practice among the merchants. 1972Bookseller 18 Mar. 1642/3 Publishers have already invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in metricated editions of educational works. 1972B.S.I. News June 12/1 The encouragement of the use of ‘metricated’ products. |