Mesures

Sendek, 20, has petitioned the Consultative Committee on Units (a subdivision of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) to use "hella" to describe the rarely cited quantity of 10 to the 27th power.

A Hella Campaign: UC Davis Student Lobbies For 'Hella' To Be Used As Scientific Term 2010

Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., the International Earth Rotation Service at the Paris Observatory and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sevres, France, all of which measure a second by the interval it takes a cesium atom to vibrate 9,192,631,770 times.

Boing Boing 2007

The SI is maintained by a small agency in Paris, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for Bureau International des Poids et Mesures), and it is updated every few years by an international conference, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, for Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures), attended by representatives of all the industrial countries and international scientific and engineering organizations.

International System of Units (SI) 2008

In 1983, the 17th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures adopted a standard value, 299,792,458 m/s for the speed of light.

A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

Bureau International de Poids et Mesures, Paris (BINP) defined the meter unit in terms of the number of wavelengths of a particular radiation instead of the meter prototype.

The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

The CIPM (Comit'e International des Poids et Mesures) Arrangement on Mutual Recognition of national measurement standards and calibration certificates issued by National Metrology Institutes and other MRA signatories.

Report Of Tep Steering Group To Trade And Economic Ministers ITY National Archives 2000

His first treatise Mesures relatives du phénomène de Kerr, written in 1892, was rewarded with a Gold Medal from the Dutch Society of Sciences at Haarlem; his doctor's thesis dealt with the same subject.

Pieter Zeeman - Biography 1967

Bureau International des Poids et Mesures The international prototype of the kilogram resides in Sèvres, France.

NYT > Home Page By SARAH LYALL 2011

(Mesures Itineraires, p. 99,) allows about twenty-five English miles for a day's journey.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Mesures pour l'emploi annoncées par Sarkozy dans les Ardennes Voici les principales mesures annoncées mardi par Nicolas Sarkozy à Rethel (Ardennes) pour amortir les effets de la crise financière sur l'emploi: - Contrats aidés:

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