Metricated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Changed from traditional units of measure to the metric system, such as switching from inches to centimetres
2. Having been converted so that measurements are expressed in metric units rather than imperial or customary ones
3. Adopted the decimal-based metric system in place of older units like feet, pounds and gallons

Etymology: Metricated is the past form of "metricate", a verb built from "metric" and the suffix "-ate", which forms verbs meaning to make or cause something to become a certain thing. The suffix reaches English through Latin "-atus", the ending that turned nouns and adjectives into verbs and passive participles, so the word's ancestry runs from Latin into English, with the core "metric" supplying the measurement sense. The meaning comes from the metric system itself. "Metricate" means to convert a country, industry or set of measurements to metric units, so a road sign or a bottling plant might be metricated. The verb thus takes a standardised system of decimal measures and applies it as a process to something already in use under older units.

Synonyms: converted, decimalized