Acronyms' Prolonged Representations Obviously Near Your Main Subjects
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| ANGSTROM | A Nitpicking Grump's Seriously Teenchy Register Of Measurement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BOLT | Bit Of Lovely Tweed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CALORIE | Cannot Allow Living Off Rapturous Impulsive Eating |
Rico Leffanta Food & Drink |
| CANDELA | Calculating A Non-Dark (Electrically Lit?) Area |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CAPACITIES | Cupful And Pint And CC, Intended To Itnternationalise Exact Standards |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| COULOMB | Charge Of Umpteen Leptons, One Magnetism Below |
Angela Brett (One Magnetism Below referring to the leptons in question having electromagnetic charge of -1) |
| DECIBEL | Do Echoing Chords Injure Bandmembers' Eardrums, Lately? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DYNE | Do You Need Energy? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FOOT | Frequently, One Of Three |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The foot is usually overshadowed by the Yard, which is three foot long) |
| GRAMME | Gravity 'Reaching At' Mass, Measures Everything |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HENRY | Has Electricity Not Registered Yet? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HERTZ | Have Everything Recalibrated To Zero |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HZ | Hearing Zone |
Jan Morgan (Hz is usually short for Hertz) |
| INCH | It's Not Considered Highbrow |
Angela Brett |
| MEASUREMENTS | Must Ensure Accurate Size Using Ruler - Errors Mean Everything's Now Too Short! |
Angela Brett and Patricia Rix |
| METRE | Measured Equator To Rotator's Extremities |
Angela Brett (the metre was originally intended to be one ten millionth of the distance from pole to equator.) |
| METRICS | Marking Each Thousandfold Range Is Convenient Symbol |
Angela Brett |
| MOLE | Measurement Of Lumpiness, Evidently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PASCAL | Pressure And Stress Calculations Are Lengthy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| YARDSTICK | Ye Auld Ruler... Do Stop Talking Imperial - Count Kilometres! |
Angela Brett |