nonmetric

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ metric.

Adjective

nonmetric (not comparable)

  1. Not metric.
    • 2018 December 24, The Editorial Board, “Yes, Virginia, there is good news this Christmas”, in USA Today‎[1]:
      But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.

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