Assertion: metric system's unit | /r/HasProperty | defined in terms of the base units
Facets:
value: traditionally
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the middle of the 19th century, James Clerk Maxwell put forward the concept of a coherent system where a small number of units of measure were defined as base units, and all other units of measure, called derived units, were defined in terms of the base units.
text: These derived units are defined in terms of the seven base units.
text: In a sense, this way of defining the SI units is no more abstract than the way derived units are traditionally defined in terms of the base units.
text: These derived units are defined in terms of the seven base units.