Home / Thesaurus / universal metre
Thesaurus: universal metre
a unit of length equivalent to the length of a free seconds pendulum; differs from the modern metre by half a centimetre, introduced by Tito Livio Burattini in 1675.
Related headwords
lengthdefinitioncentimetredefinitiondiffersdefinitionequivalentdefinitionfreedefinitionhalfdefinitionintroduceddefinitionmetredefinitionmoderndefinitionpendulumdefinitionsecondsdefinitiontitodefinitionunitdefinitionuniverbatefamilyuniveristiesfamilyuniversalfamilyuniversal agentfamilyuniversal donorfamilyuniversal gas constantfamilyuniversal gravitational constantfamilyuniversal jointfamilyuniversal meterfamilyUniversal Product Codefamilyuniversal propositionfamilyuniversal quantifierfamilyuniversal resource locatorfamilyuniversal setfamilyuniversal solventfamily
Definitions
- n. a unit of length equivalent to the length of a free seconds pendulum; differs from the modern metre by half a centimetre, introduced by Tito Livio Burattini in 1675.