Metrification

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Metrification \Met`ri*fi*ca"tion\, n.
     1. Composition in metrical form; versification. [R.]
        --Tennyson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The act or process of converting the standard system of


        units of a country to those of the metric system;
        metrication.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  metrification
       n 1: writing a metrical composition (or the metrical strucutre of
            a composition)
       2: the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to
          metric units: meters, grams, seconds [syn: {metrication}]