unit of measurement; unit




any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

"the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"

Type of:
  • definite quantity

Types:
  • measuring unit; measuring block
  • denier
  • diopter; dioptre
  • karat; carat; kt
  • absorption unit
  • acceleration unit
  • angular unit
  • area unit; square measure
  • volume unit; capacity unit; capacity measure; cubage unit; cubic measure; cubic content unit; displacement unit; cubature unit
  • computer memory unit
  • electromagnetic unit; emu
  • explosive unit
  • force unit
  • linear unit; linear measure
  • metric unit; metric
  • miles per gallon
  • monetary unit
  • megaflop; MFLOP; million floating point operations per second
  • teraflop; trillion floating point operations per second
  • MIPS; million instructions per second
  • pain unit
  • pressure unit
  • printing unit
  • sound unit
  • telephone unit
  • temperature unit
  • weight unit; weight
  • mass unit
  • unit of viscosity
  • work unit; heat unit; energy unit
  • langley
  • Brinell number
  • point
  • bit
  • electrostatic unit


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