Metaphor is the comparison of two different things, but the comparison is implied rather than expressed.
Scientists use meter and centimeter rather than inches and feet because they have to share their results with other countries. America is the only country that uses feet and inches while the rest of the world uses the metric system.
what probably cost the percentagge error in comparing the relationship between ruler,foot,centimeter,gram,ounce
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Galileo Galilei was and is sometimes referred to as "the father of experimental science." Galileo didn't take much on faith, rather, he tested his ideas through experiments and expressed them in mathematical form.
It is 0.001 times greater, or rather 10,000 times smaller
One dam (dekameter) equals 10 meters. A decimeter (latin, rather than greek prefix) is 1/10th of a meter.
By Horsepower if you mean engine ouput ? If so these days it is often expressed in kilowatts rather than horsepower (1HP=0.746kW)
The conjunction "but" in Spanish is "pero". The English term "but rather" is expressed as "sino" in Spanish.
Metaphor is the comparison of two different things, but the comparison is implied rather than expressed.
It is the value of a number which is expressed in base 16 rather than the "normal" decimal, or base 10, form.
It's a rather awkwardly expressed arithmetic problem.199 x 4 = 796.
Who says it is? You have expressed an opinion rather than ask a question.
Scientist could not agree on a standard.
acellular rather than unicellular.
Scientists use meter and centimeter rather than inches and feet because they have to share their results with other countries. America is the only country that uses feet and inches while the rest of the world uses the metric system.
It doesn't have to, but generally, it does.