Assertion: metric system's unit | /r/HasProperty | fundamental
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text: Originally, the metric system was based on only three fundamental units: the meter for length, the kilogram for mass, and the second for time.
text: Originally, the metric system was based on only three fundamental units: the meter for length, the kilogram for mass, and the second for time.
text: The metric system has been adopted by the majority of the world and uses one fundamental unit for every quantity.
text: The small-unit metric system (or more formally, the centimeter-gram-second (cgs) system of units ) is based on three fundamental units: the centimeter (cm), which quantifies displacement , the gram (g), which quantifies mass , and the second (s or sec), which quantifies time .