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3. Foot, pound and second are used to express length, mass and time respectively.
4. Used to simplify the description of physical quantities that either very large or very small
6. Involve changing a value expressed in one type of unit to another type of unit
8. The units of fundamental physical quantities
9. A process that uses numbers to describe a physical quantity
10. A quantity that cannot be defined in terms of any other physical quantities
12. The actual physical embodiment of the unit of a physical quantity is known as a standard of that physical quantity.
13. A quantity that can be defined in terms of any other physical quantities

1. Centimetre, Gram and Second are used to express length, mass and time respectively.
2. Metre, kilogram and second are used to express length, mass and time respectively.
4. A quantity that can be measured
5. Example of basic quantity
7. Standards for expressing and comparing the measurement of physical quantities
11. The internationally accepted reference standards to measure physical quantities
14. Example of derived quantity