WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF.
\wˈe͡ɪts and mˈɛʒəz], \wˈeɪts and mˈɛʒəz], \w_ˈeɪ_t_s a_n_d m_ˈɛ_ʒ_ə_z]\
Definitions of WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF.
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To secure international uniformity and precision in standards of weight and measure an international bureau was established at Paris by a convention concluded May 20, 1875, between the United States, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, the Argentine Confederation, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela.
By John Franklin Jameson
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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