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metricism en · NOUN

Etymology

From metric + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of the metric system.
    • Thus the literature of metricism is second only to that of socialism, single taxism, and of other fallacies which never lack adherents and advocates. quoted in 1971, Charles F. Treat, A History of the Metric System Controversy in the United States (page 209)