English Dictionary

imperial system

名詞

A system of measurement in use in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, now mostly superseded by the metric system; similar to the system currently used in the United States; consisting of units such as the inch, the mile and the pound (of weight).

日本語の意味

英国やその他の連邦加盟国でかつて広く用いられ、現在は主に国際単位系に取って代わられた計量単位の体系。 / アメリカ合衆国で現行の単位系に類似した、インチ、マイル、ポンドなどの単位から構成される系統。

Many older recipes still list ingredients in the imperial system, which can confuse cooks who learned metric measurements.

古いレシピの多くは今でもヤード・ポンド法の単位で材料の分量を記しており、メートル法で学んだ料理人を混乱させることがある。

意味（1）

A system of measurement in use in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, now mostly superseded by the metric system; similar to the system currently used in the United States; consisting of units such as the inch, the mile and the pound (of weight).

the imperial system （ canonical ）

imperial systems （ plural ）