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Common terms and phrases
2nd choice adopted agreed benefits bolts British Standards Institution British Thermal Unit Building centimetre change to metric changeover period Clerks X Construction Industry conversion cost decimal derived units diameter dimensions Divisional Council drawing office Dual Scales Functional Group gauges geometric progression Going Metric gramme I.S.O. Recommendation Imperial sizes Imperial System Imperial units industry Metric standards International System joule Kempe's kilogramme km/h lbf ft lbf/in² length litre machine tools manufacturing mass materials Metric design mbar megajoules metre Metric design Metric Metric is larger metric series Metric standards Metric metric system metric units Metrication Board Metrication Officer Micrometers MN/m² modular multiples and submultiples N/m² organisation Paper paper sizes pound-force Preferred Numbers prefix pressure programme progress published range rationalisation S.I. units screw threads screws sector sheet Spanners standards Metric products symbols system of measurement System of Units threads tolerances tonf/in² tube velocity Weights and Measures