Definition & Meaning | English word BIPM

Definitions of BIPM

1. (physics, standardization) Initialism of International Bureau of Weights and Measures. (French abbreviation)

Examples of Using BIPM in a Sentence

• Since 1969 the site has been considered international territory, and the BIPM has all the rights and privileges accorded to an intergovernmental organisation.
• The treaty created the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), an intergovernmental organization, under the authority of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) and the supervision of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM).
• Several other countries adopted the metric system between 1795 and 1875; to ensure conformity between the countries, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) was established by the Metre Convention.
• The Metre Convention established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM) in Sèvres, France, to provide standards of measurement for worldwide use.
• The Military Parachuting Initiation Badge (French: Brevet d'initiation au parachutisme militaire (BIPM)) was created in 1980 and aimed at military personnel outside of airborne units.
• In 1875, a British delegation was one of twenty national delegations to a convention in Paris that resulted in seventeen of the nations signing the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875, and the establishment of three bodies, the CGPM, CIPM and BIPM, that were charged with overseeing weights and measures on behalf of the international community.
• The Indian national standard of mass, kilogramme, is copy number 57 of the international prototype of the kilogram supplied by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM: French – Bureau International des Poids et Mesures), Paris.
• The Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine or JCTLM is collaboration between the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the International Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC).
• The measurement of time is overseen by BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures), located in Sèvres, France, which ensures uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI) worldwide.
• The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, BIPM): it has its headquarters in the Pavillon de Breteuil; the building contains copies of the metre and kilogramme standards.
• BIPM, CGPM, and CIPM – Bureau International des Poids et Mesures and the related organizations established under the Metre Convention of 1875.
• The BIPM defines the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the rubidium-87 atom, 6 834 682 610.
• Broch, director of the BIPM replied that he was not authorised to perform any such calibrations for non-member states.
• VAMAS is supported by leadership in National measurement institutes (NMI) including NPL, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), National Bureau of Standards (today's National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST), The British measurement and testing association (BMTA), International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), and Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM).

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