United States Customary System


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  1. the system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint that dates back to colonial America but differs in some respects from the British Imperial System; today in the United States this system exists side by side with the SI system
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the US government department that decides which new inventions can be given a PATENT (= the right to make and sell a new invention) . There is a similar department in the UK called the PATENT Office.