british system

1. 1.

   a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint

   SynonymsBritish Imperial SystemEnglish system

   Broadersystem of weights and measures

   Partsavoirdupois unit

Questions about british system

What does british system mean?

british system means "a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint".

What is another word for british system?

Close synonyms include British Imperial System, English system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is british system a common word?

british system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.