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A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units

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Edited by Don Fenna

Over 1,500 entries

This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use.

Donald Fenna is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta. He is the author of numerous publications in journals covering mathematics, computing, and medicine, as well as Elsevier's Encyclopedic Dicitonary of Measures (1998)

ISBN: 0198605226
Print edition publication date: 2002



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