"weight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These two pillars are, honest standardized weights and measures and a moral and healthy constitution.
- In the Nov. 3 issue of the journal Nature, Mr. Epstein said these specimens "suggest the existence of a system of standardized weights used from Ecuador to Peru's south coast."
- The Chinese merchant Ma Huan (1413-51) outlines the standardized weight and currency system in place at the port city of Cochin.
- His system relies on a measure of free trade, and proposes a single currency, and standardized weights and measures.
- The customs union opened up a common market, ended tariffs between states, and standardized weights, measures, and currencies within member states (excluding Austria), forming the basis of a proto-national economy.
- They represented small ingots of copper or bronze of standardized weight, and were traded as such.
- Each point on the Rockwell scale represents 80-millionths of an inch of depth when the steel is tested with a sharp point and a standardized weight, he explained.
- Official decrees standardized weights and measures and even the axle dimensions of all wagons (the latter edict kept transport in the same ruts for countless years).
- Thanks to steam power, chronometers, and standardized weights and measures, it became possible to know more about what other people were doing and to expect more of them.
- He also introduced standardized weights and measures throughout the country to assist administration as well as trade.
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