0 the process of changing to using metric units for measuring things
1 the change from measuring things in imperial units (= feet, pounds, pints, etc.) to using metric units (= metres, kilograms, litres, etc.):
Metrication has still not been fully implemented in the construction industry.
This is far from being a total metrication debate.
In none of the countries which have changed over to metric has it been possible to estimate the costs or benefits of metrication.
We are bearing the metrication issue very much in mind.
I could go on to talk about referenda on metrication, rates or taxes.
This leads me straight to the question of metrication, which fills me with great horror.
Metrication in the merchant shipping area is expected to be completed by the end of 1979 and of import duties by the middle of 1977.
Yet there are still some slaggards, laggards and recalcitrants who are still talking as if metrication were an open question.
First, as to the necessity, we live with enclaves of metrication within the commercial, industrial and academic worlds.
