unit of measurement


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Noun1.unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchangeunit of measurement - 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"
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definite quantity - a specific measure of amount
measuring block, measuring unit - a unit of measurement
denier - a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon; "with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings"
diopter, dioptre - a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists
karat, kt, carat - the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
absorption unit - a unit for measuring absorption
acceleration unit - a unit for measuring acceleration
angular unit - a unit of measurement for angles
area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas
capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit - a unit of measurement of volume or capacity
computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
electromagnetic unit, emu - any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
explosive unit - any unit for measuring the force of explosions
force unit - a unit of measurement of physical force
linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length
metric unit, metric - a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds); "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric"
miles per gallon - the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel
monetary unit - a unit of money
megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
million instructions per second, MIPS - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"
pain unit - a unit measuring the intensity of pain
pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area
printing unit - a unit of measurement for printing
sound unit - any acoustic unit of measurement
telephone unit - a unit of measurement for telephone use
temperature unit - a unit of measurement for temperature
weight unit, weight - a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
mass unit - a unit of measurement for mass
unit of viscosity - a unit of measurement for viscosity
energy unit, heat unit, work unit - a unit of measurement for work
langley - unit of solar radiation
Brinell number - measure of the hardness of a material
point - the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points"
bit - a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte"
electrostatic unit - any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges
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he said; and 'tis as good as a play to hear them talking about their condensed notes, as they call them; they put their ears close alongside of the strings like persons catching a sound from their neighbour's wall--one set of them declaring that they distinguish an intermediate note and have found the least interval which should be the unit of measurement; the others insisting that the two sounds have passed into the same-- either party setting their ears before their understanding.
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