What are the metric abbreviations?
The most common metric prefixes include giga (1,000,000,000), mega (1,000,000), kilo (1000), hecto (100), deka (10), deci (1/10), centi (1/100), milli (1/1000), micro (1/1,000,000), nano (1/1,000,000,000), and pico (1/1,000,000,000,000). Most metric abbreviations are lower-case, such as m for meter.
What are the 7 metric units of measurement?
Metric prefixes table prefixsymboldecimal number kilo k 1,000 mega M 1,000,000 giga G 1,000,000,000 tera T 1,000,000,000,00017 more rows
What are the 12 metric prefixes?
Prefixes are provided in scales that function around 7 units known as metric system (or SI) base units. As shown in Table 1, base units include the meter (m), the kilogram (kg), the kelvin (K), the second (s), the ampere (A), the candela (cd), and the mole (mol).
