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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a system of units for mechanics, using the meter, the kilogram, and the second as basic units of length, mass, and time.
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- noun A system of
units used in Physics and other sciences, often abbreviated as themks . It is the basis of theSI system of international units.
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The expression "MKS [meter-kilogram-second] unit of force" which occurs in the original text has been replaced here by "newton," the name adopted for this unit by the 9th CGPM (1948).
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For example, you know how is called in the meter-kilogram-second system, the unit of Force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram one meter per second per second, equal to 100,000 dynes?
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