International Committee for Weights and Measures

The International Committee for Weights and Measures contemplated defining the unit of 1 as the 'uno', but the idea was dropped.

At the 94th Meeting of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (2005) it was recommended that the same be done with the kilogram.

In 2005, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) agreed to study the proposed change.

International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM)

The International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) has not accepted the use of the rad.

The sievert was adopted by the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) in 1980, five years after adopting the gray.

The International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission continue to use the old terminology of quality factors and dose equivalent.

International Committee for Weights and Measures (Comité international des poids et mesures or CIPM) - an administrative committee that meets annually at the BIPM.

Its use is officially discouraged by the International Committee for Weights and Measures and is not included in the European Union's catalogue of units of measure that may be used within its Internal Market.

Indeed, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) notes that "its definition applies only within a spatial extent sufficiently small that the effects of the non-uniformity of the gravitational field can be ignored."

The International Committee for Weights and Measures (Comité international des poids et mesures or CIPM) - an advisory body to the CGPM consisting of 18 prominent metrologists from 18 different countries.

CIPM (International Committee for Weights and Measures / Comité international des poids et mesures)-The Committee consists of eighteen eminent scientists, each from a different country, nominated by the CGPM.

In 2004, a report to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (known also by its French-language initials CIPM) stated that response to the proposal of the uno "had been almost entirely negative" and the principal proponent "recommended dropping the idea".

After the International Prototype Kilogram had been found to vary in mass over time, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) recommended in 2005 that the kilogram be redefined in terms of a fundamental constant of nature.

The writing and maintenance of the CGPM brochure is carried out by one of the consultative committees of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) - the Consultative Committee for Units (CCU).

In April 2003, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) considered a recommendation for the decibel's inclusion in the International System of Units (SI), but decided not to adopt the decibel as an SI unit.

The International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) makes no mention of the are in the current (2006) definition of the SI, but classifies the hectare as a "Non-SI unit accepted for use with the International System of Units"

In 2005, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) approved the preparation of new definitions for the kilogram, the ampere, and the kelvin and it noted the possibility of a new definition for the mole based on the Avogadro constant.

In the late 1950s the ICRU was invited by the CGPM to join other scientific bodies to work with the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) in the development of a system of units that could be used consistently over many disciplines.

This position is endorsed by other standards organizations including the IEEE, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), but the binary prefixes have seen limited acceptance.

Today, the use of the Ångstrom as a unit is less popular than it used to be and the nanometre (nm) is often used instead (with the Ångstrom being officially discouraged by both the International Committee for Weights and Measures and the American National Standard for Metric Practice).