metricatedadj.
/ˈmɛtrᵻkeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈmɛtrəˌkeɪdᵻd/ Made or sold in accordance with metric measurements; converted to or using the metric system.
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1969 Jrnl. Inst. Navigation 22 421 With the..Malacca Straits charts metricated, tanker companies..will be able to use metric charts between the U.K. and..the Far East.
1970 Daily 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.
1970 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 3/2 When clothes are fully metricated, at least two things will still be recognisable in the old shapes, brassieres and shoes.
1971 Timber 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.
1972 Bookseller 18 Mar. 1642/3 Publishers have already invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in metricated editions of educational works.
1972 B.S.I. News June 12/1 The encouragement of the use of ‘metricated’ products.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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