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Verb: metricize  'me-tri,sIz
  1. Express in the metric system
    "They metricized all measurements in the scientific paper";
    - metricise [Brit]
     
  2. Convert from a non-metric to the metric system
    "The engineering team had to metricize all the old blueprints";
    - metricise [Brit], metrify, metricate

Derived forms: metricizing, metricized, metricizes

Type of: change over, convert, transform, translate