unmetric

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ metric.

Adjective

unmetric (not comparable)

  1. Not according to the metric system.
    • 1870, The Congressional Globe, page 283:
      […] one who uses those [coins] of France, which are unmetric and under the condemnation of the men of science not only of the United States and England but of France and the entire continent.
    • 1897, American Chamber of Commerce in France, Bulletin (issues 3-43, page 13)
      Monsieur Hospitalier also remarked that (in France) it was customary to employ, in certain computations, unmetric units which complicate the work.
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