unmetric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not according to the metric system.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "Monsieur Hospitalier also remarked that (in France) it was customary to employ, in certain computations, unmetric units which complicate the work."
Etymology
From un- + metric.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un