Assertion: ohm | /r/CapableOf | avoid fraction
Facets:
value: merely
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Then a congress at Paris endeavoured to fix new values before accurate knowledge was obtained, and with that curious tendency of the French mind towards apparent definiteness, they fixed upon a value for the ohm, even then known to be incorrect, merely because it avoided a fraction in the nominal length of a tube of mercury which no one ever made, or probably ever will make in reality.