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absolute unit

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absolute unit
n
1. (Physics / General Physics) a unit of measurement forming part of the electromagnetic cgs system, such as an abampere or abcoulomb
2. (Physics / General Physics) a unit of measurement forming part of a system of units that includes a unit of force defined so that it is independent of the acceleration of free fall


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When the standard wires, carefully coiled and molded into paraffin, were ready, the introduction of the absolute unit system with the ohm and the farad appeared to be guaranteed by this truly scientific endeavor, just as happened earlier with the meter and the kilogram in the case of the metric system.
The most commonly used measure of genital response, vaginal pulse amplitude (VPA), has no absolute unit of measure as a reference.
, "perfusion") in continuous, real time, and absolute units was recently granted FDA clearance.
 
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