Assertion: base unit | /r/HasProperty | the metre
Facets:
value: for length
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the early metric system there were two base units, the metre for length and the gram for mass.
text: The base SI units are metre, kilogram, second, kelvin, ampere, candela and the mole and the three supplementary SI units are radian, steradian and becquerel.
text: For example, the base units for weight is kilogram "kg", and for length is meter "m", and where a conversion of a unit is always a power of ten, e.g. kilometer = 10^3 meters.
text: The base unit for length is the meter.
text: It is an extension of Giorgi's MKSA system – its base units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela and mole.
text: The base unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the metre, defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ​1⁄ 299792458 seconds.
text: The six base units that they used were the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin, and candela.